DBRP: What is the Earliest Historical Event You Remember?

King Thomas

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The Great Storm of 1987,which killed more then 200 people when it came in the middle of the day. I nearly got blown away,and Micheal Fish got sacked.
 
The Byzantine Reclaimation of Constantinople Cerimony after the Greek-Turkish War, I remember it so well because that was the First time i heard of the Cold War at all...

OOC: The POD is After 1950, trust me....
 
Mine was the 1992 debates between President Bush and Clinton. I wonder what it would have been like if they let Perot in. Ah well, I doubt Clinton could have won in 1992 anyway, Gennifer Flowers and all. He was back in 1996 though

OOC: So Clinton was impeached in 1998 right, so he was only in the white house 2 years now. Bush Sr had two terms. is that right so far?

George H.W. Bush (1989-1997)
Bill Clinton
(1997-1998) IMPEACHED, REMOVED FROM OFFICE
Al Gore (1998-2009)
 
Mine was the 1992 debates between President Bush and Clinton. I wonder what it would have been like if they let Perot in. Ah well, I doubt Clinton could have won in 1992 anyway, Gennifer Flowers and all. He was back in 1996 though

OOC: So Clinton was impeached in 1998 right, so he was only in the white house 2 years now. Bush Sr had two terms. is that right so far?

George H.W. Bush (1989-1997)
Bill Clinton
(1997-1998) IMPEACHED, REMOVED FROM OFFICE
Al Gore (1998-2009)

OOC: Not quite. From reconstructing a few people's posts: Gore was President for 10 years, with Hillary winning the White House in 08. That means Gore winning in 2000 and 2004, with Clinton resigning (not impeached) in 1998. There was also a reference to President Clinton vs. Senator Crane in 1996, implying a Clinton win in 1992. We also have Reagan dying in 1985, when he had surgery. OTL, Bush was made Acting President under the 25th Amendment for a few hours. ATL, he was elevated to the presidency when Reagan passed. That would leave HW president from 1985-1993.
 
I was a small person, but everyone was caught up in the excitement of the Soyuz 11 moon landing, with Alexey Leonov's famous words "One small step for man... One giant leap for mankind!" :D
 
I was a small person, but everyone was caught up in the excitement of the Soyuz 11 moon landing, with Alexey Leonov's famous words "One small step for man... One giant leap for mankind!" :D

Comrade, you are spewing vile imperialist propaganda. As everyone knows, he really said, "One small step for a worker, one giant leap for the party."
 
One of the greatest things i remember was in 1982 when Thatcher escalated the Falklands and we launched those raids on Argentina.

Seeing the damage those old Vulcans did to those airbases and the burning aircraft from those SAS attacks and how those Phantoms we were basing in chile tore up the Argie air Force made you proud........The Empire Strikes back!!....... oh yeah and no bloody restrictions this time.

Makes you wonder were the UK would be without them and would we still have the nationalist govenment we have enjoyed these 20+ years ?
 
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OOC: Not quite. From reconstructing a few people's posts: Gore was President for 10 years, with Hillary winning the White House in 08. That means Gore winning in 2000 and 2004, with Clinton resigning (not impeached) in 1998. There was also a reference to President Clinton vs. Senator Crane in 1996, implying a Clinton win in 1992. We also have Reagan dying in 1985, when he had surgery. OTL, Bush was made Acting President under the 25th Amendment for a few hours. ATL, he was elevated to the presidency when Reagan passed. That would leave HW president from 1985-1993.

Can't be done. If Gore had taken over from Clinton any earlier than January 20, 1999, then been reelected in 2000, he couldn't run in 2004. A person who becomes President because someone else leaves office (dies, resigns....) can be elected twice in his own right if he served less than two years of that incomplete term. It's in the Constitution somewhere.
 

Sir Chaos

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The first historical event I can imagine... tough question. The first I really understood, without having a kid-friendly version of it served to me, was when the East German government cracked down on the protesters in ´89. What a bloodbath that was! I was 12 at the time, and I remember having nightmares about it for weeks!
 
Originally Posted by CiH
I was a small person, but everyone was caught up in the excitement of the Soyuz 11 moon landing, with Alexey Leonov's famous words "One small step for man... One giant leap for mankind!"

Comrade, you are spewing vile imperialist propaganda. As everyone knows, he really said, "One small step for a worker, one giant leap for the party."

It was more a case of one version for internal consumption and the general delight of the SSR's, and a more universal sentiment for the rest of the world. The jury is still out over which were the real words spoken, and which were dubbed on. Hardly matters as you can't take away from the achievement, whatever was on the script. :)

Just out of interest, if the world can't agree on those first words, what is your take on the various conspiracy theories that say the moon landings never happened at all?
 
Can't be done. If Gore had taken over from Clinton any earlier than January 20, 1999, then been reelected in 2000, he couldn't run in 2004. A person who becomes President because someone else leaves office (dies, resigns....) can be elected twice in his own right if he served less than two years of that incomplete term. It's in the Constitution somewhere.

True, but that doesn't change the summary I posted, only the specific date. I was fudging a bit there (using 1998 as halfway between 1996 and 2000, rather than 1/21/99 as halfway between 1/20/97 and 1/20/01, because I was lazy), as the people who posted the Clinton resignation and 10 years of Gore thing didn't specify, but the effect's the same: Clinton serves at least two years and 1 day as President, Gore fills the term and serves two more.
 
Just out of interest, if the world can't agree on those first words, what is your take on the various conspiracy theories that say the moon landings never happened at all?

Imperialist propaganda aimed to deceive the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. All right-thinking proletarians realize that it was the spirit of Comrade Lenin that made the flag wave in vacuum.

(OOC: I believe we really did land on the moon.)
 
What a bunch of kids!
Nobody here remembering the falling of the Berlin Wall and the integration of Capitalist West Germany in the Socialist East?
Don't you remember all these Western refufgees trying to flee in the People's Republics?
Why do you think the Cold war ended?
Why do you think Georgia is no more part of the Union?
Neither Alaska, for what it matters, nor all those little states in the mid-west with these those funny names I always mispell.
 
OOC: Not quite. From reconstructing a few people's posts: Gore was President for 10 years, with Hillary winning the White House in 08. That means Gore winning in 2000 and 2004, with Clinton resigning (not impeached) in 1998. There was also a reference to President Clinton vs. Senator Crane in 1996, implying a Clinton win in 1992. We also have Reagan dying in 1985, when he had surgery. OTL, Bush was made Acting President under the 25th Amendment for a few hours. ATL, he was elevated to the presidency when Reagan passed. That would leave HW president from 1985-1993.
OOC: Thanks for The Reference ...

My Reaction as Listed in The Post-Script, was Also True in OTL ...

That's EXACTLY The Way I Felt, at The Time it Occurred!

IC: Not Only that, But Senator Paul Wellstone Beating Vice President Warren Rudman, was a Real Treat ...

Too Bad he Became VP, as a Political Appointee; Even AFTER his Successful Election, he NEVER Managed to Shake The Negative Stigma from that!
 
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Penelope

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OOC: Not quite. From reconstructing a few people's posts: Gore was President for 10 years, with Hillary winning the White House in 08. That means Gore winning in 2000 and 2004, with Clinton resigning (not impeached) in 1998. There was also a reference to President Clinton vs. Senator Crane in 1996, implying a Clinton win in 1992. We also have Reagan dying in 1985, when he had surgery. OTL, Bush was made Acting President under the 25th Amendment for a few hours. ATL, he was elevated to the presidency when Reagan passed. That would leave HW president from 1985-1993.

Wellstone was assassinated in '96 - so I assume it goes like this:

40. Ronald W. Reagan
1981-1985
41. George H. W. Bush
1985-1993
42. Paul Wellstone
1993-1996
43. William J. "Bill" Clinton
1996-1998
44. Albert Gore, Jr.
1998-2008
 
The earliest historical event I remember has got to be the 1998 election, when Kim Beazley was first elected Prime Minister and John Hewson was voted out. I can still remember the cheering when it was reported that Pauline Hanson had lost her seat in Parliament. :cool:
 
The earliest historical event I remember has got to be the 1998 election, when Kim Beazley was first elected Prime Minister and John Hewson was voted out. I can still remember the cheering when it was reported that Pauline Hanson had lost her seat in Parliament. :cool:

You must have been a pretty passionate child. :D How old were you? ;)


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The 1st significant event I remember was the death of Lyndon Johnson in October 1963 when Air Force Two crash landed in Denver. I was captivated by the horses and drums during his state funeral - the 1st such event shown live on television. I also remember the wild stories right after the crash about how the Soviets brought down the plane. Many of you probably saw Oliver Stone's movie LBJ several years ago - talk about conspiracy theories.
 
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