DBRP: What is the Earliest Historical Event You Remember?

You must have been a pretty passionate child. :D How old were you? ;)
Nope, my parents were. All I knew at the time was "We like Beazley, we don't like Hewson, and Pauline Hanson is a horrible idiot racist." I was eight.

I didn't really get into politics and stuff until 2004... right on time for Beazley to lose to Costello. :rolleyes: The election last year was pretty awesome, though -- not just because I voted for Jenny Macklin and she won, but because that was the first time I'd ever voted.
 
does anyone else remember the Anglo Icelandic " Cod wars " the way those Icelandic coast gaurds attacked British trawlers, and how in the glare of the worlds press the Royal Navy turned up and sank the bloody lot of them. Freedom of the seas and all that.

Shame though that NATO fell apart after that with the UK Canada and the USA forming their own alliance with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to combat communisum.
 
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

Since your post was edited, that would do it, for the most part. I was working under the rule from other threads like this I've been in, which is that posts running counterfactual to previous posts in the thread are ignored, rather than adjusted to fit, so I didn't reread your post. With the change, that fixes most of the issue.

Clinton would still have to resign after 1/20/99, however. Philadelphus is quite right that a resignation prior to that date would have precluded Gore from seeking his own second term in 2004.

There are a couple really interesting background questions in this list, though. First, I'm interested in hearing more about Alt-Wellstone's political career. OTL, he'd only been a Senator since 1991, and hadn't held elective office prior to that, so he didn't exactly have a long record. I'm wondering if maybe he got more experience somewhere else ATL. Second, I'm wondering about Clinton's willingness to accept the VP slot, and what leads Wellstone to him, rather than someone slightly more liberal. Third, we've only had four Presidents from the same party in a row twice before in our history, and never five in a row, (Jefferson - JQ Adams, 7 terms, and Grant - Arthur, 4 terms), so Wellstone-Clinton-Gore-Clinton(Rodham? Not sure if she'd have kept his name in this timeline) for at least 5 terms is a rare situation indeed. I'm wondering which Republican would end up taking the White House after this.
 
There are a couple really interesting background questions in this list, though. First, I'm interested in hearing more about Alt-Wellstone's political career. OTL, he'd only been a Senator since 1991, and hadn't held elective office prior to that, so he didn't exactly have a long record. I'm wondering if maybe he got more experience somewhere else ATL. Second, I'm wondering about Clinton's willingness to accept the VP slot, and what leads Wellstone to him, rather than someone slightly more liberal. Third, we've only had four Presidents from the same party in a row twice before in our history, and never five in a row, (Jefferson - JQ Adams, 7 terms, and Grant - Arthur, 4 terms), so Wellstone-Clinton-Gore-Clinton(Rodham? Not sure if she'd have kept his name in this timeline) for at least 5 terms is a rare situation indeed. I'm wondering which Republican would end up taking the White House after this.

I've got it, In 1982 Wellstone wins the race for state auditor, in 1986 he uses it to boost himself up to Governor (because Rudy Perpich gets Cancer earlier) in 1990 he runs and wins a Senate seat and jumps right into running for President (its more high office than Obama had), as for Clinton as Veep well Clinton is a SouthernDem and a ConservaDem Paul is hoping to pull those groups into coalition to beat the GOP. I'm guessing with Phil Crane as there man in 1996 the GOP went in Teabagger land sooner in TTL and thus have been locked out as the Dems take over
 
A bunch of young folk here. Born in 1967, I remember things like TVs where you had to change channels and volume by turning knobs. Do any of you kids know that Sir Paul McCartney was in two bands ?

I remember the day that Elvis was gunned down. He wandered in the wilderness for a few years before finding himself again. He had to make major changes to his onstage image due to being in a wheelchair.

My earliest historical memory, well most don't even know about it now. We were living in Tuscon, my dad was stationed at Davis-Mothan AFB. Las Vegas was only a few hours away and we were an Air Force family. That was the day those two Canadian fighters collided over the Strip. One plane slammed into the Dunes hotel and major pieces of the other wrecked a nearby church (yes, there are churchs on the strip. They predate the massive casion construction of the 1980s and 1990s.)
It was years later before I found out that my dad had been working with the Canadian ground crew when the planes were at D-M.
 
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The first historical event isn't really something I saw for two reasons, first because it was just before my fifth birthday and I didn't understand fully what I was being told and second was the way the event itself unfolded. When the Viet Cong decided to launch their Tet Offensive they took extra care to cut off all communication with the rest of the world. The Saigon Hilton was attacked and while only three journalists were killed the rest found themselves hideing on the roof for six days. In addition to their attack on the Hiton Hotel, the Viet Cong captured the Saigon International Airport. These two events conspired to rob the rest of the world of first person reporting of the event untill it was over and no film coverage at all.
All we got were boring reports that were read by the news anchor that all the adults were listening to as if their lives depended on it. Years later I realised how lucky I had been, footage of a war fought up close and personal from street to street being shown at six o'clock while it could be seen by five year olds, that would have given me nightmares.
The first historical event I can say I remember seeing would be L.B.J.s victory speech later that same year, the funny thing is after that it took me many years to realise that all Americans didn't speak with southern accents.
 

Penelope

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40. Ronald W. Reagan
1981-1985
41. George H. W. Bush
1985-1993
42. Paul Wellstone
1993-1996
43. William J. "Bill" Clinton
1996-1999
44. Albert Gore, Jr.
1999-2009
45. Hillary Rodham
2009-Present
 
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