What is your first Historical event memory?

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

What is the first Historical event that you have experienced that you can remember?

And so you think it has influenced you and people your age?

I remember that we were asked that in a class, and most my friends answered Lady Di death.

So what is the first one you can remember?

[DarkArmada]

First one I remember is most likely the first Gulf War (I think?) though I was too young to understand most of it.

First one I witnessed as it happened was the 9/11 attacks - longest night at work ever.

[Pseudonym]

It probably wasn't the first, but the earliest I really remember all the details was 9/11. I was in fourth grade at the time and I came home and my parents told me all about what had happened. I kept thinking it had to have been an accident but everyone assured me it was an attack. The next day in school we spent the whole day sitting and just talking. It was really something.

It definitely opened my eyes, and from that day on, everything seemed to change. I am glad America has been able to somewhat heal and get stronger, but that day will live on in our hearts forever.

[ImLovingGuyBerryman]

hmmm i was in fourth grade when 9/11 happened. i doubt i need to elaborate.....


oh and i dont know if this counts, but i was in second grade when we hit year 2000! thats a pretty cool thing that we can all say that we lived through the turn of a millennium! :D

i like this thread idea by the way!

[MK]

Hmm...

Bombardment in 1999. Don't know how they called it, but I know they attacked Serbia. I was 4. I think it influenced memories of my friends, probably all of us remember going to the basements, the sound of alarms and airplane engines, etc.

[Ab]

I think it'd be the Y2K celebrations as Lauren said, we had a historical celebration next to the Pyramids, it was mind blowing! :cool:
Hmm...

Bombardment in 1999. Don't know how they called it, but I know they attacked Serbia. I was 4. I think it influenced memories of my friends, probably all of us remember going to the basements, the sound of alarms and airplane engines, etc.
Whoa, that must have been terrifying! :stunned:
Sorry about that! :\

[noonsun]

Probably 9/11 also. I think I was in second grade during it... it was scary. I remember my dad picking me up from school and being really stressed out, and I asked him if he was okay, and he said, "NO, UNKNOWN THOUSANDS HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK ON NEW YORK CITY!" He was really freaked out. I got sort of scared....

I sort of remember Y2K also, but not that really well or anything.

[MK]

Whoa, that must have been terrifying! :stunned:
Sorry about that! :\

I was really young and didn't know quite what was happening. Yes, it was scary. Don't be sorry! There are a lot of such things in the world, and a lot of worse things ;)

And if somebody is interested, look here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia) (I didn't read it, but I guess it's a good text).

[Carla]

Lady Di death I guess, and 9/11 cuz that day I found out I had Hepatitis.

[Tnspieler1012]

While 9/11 was big, I can remember well before that. So I'll say the '96 Olympics and Kerri Strug's vault. (I know there was also the bombing at that olympics, but I didn't know at the time...)

[Violet]

I remember Y2K very well. I was in the 4th grade, and for fun we all made time capsules that we would open on January 1st, 2001. That, and the fact that people were freaking out and stocking up cupboards.

[noonsun]

VIOLET THAT MEANS YOU'RE IN COLLEGE NOW.

I DID NOT KNOW THIS.

[Violet]

You never asked. :P But yeah, I'm in my second semester. :)

[luckycharms2987]

I would say the oklahoma city bombing.

However, 911 I remember much more.

[MrMagpie]

I would say the oklahoma city bombing.

However, 911 I remember much more.

Yeah, Oklahoma bombing for me as well.
And OJ Simpson stuff.

[Saffire]

I barely remember seeing the first Gulf War on TV, my dad was watching the news. It frightened me and fascinated me at the same time... I was glad it was so far away.

[strawberryfields]

I don't really remember much before 9/11, considering I was only 7 when that happened. I'm sure there's other important events that I experienced before that, but none of them really stick out at me.

[chuck kottke]

Wow, I'm old!:laugh3: I have to say I remember seeing some of the lunar landings live (I was 3 ), and I do remember the news about Woodstock, but just barely. I remember Nixon's impeachment, and the end of the Vietnam war.. Tumultuous times, not all that different from this epoch here.

[ImLovingGuyBerryman]

Wow, I'm old!:laugh3: I have to say I remember seeing some of the lunar landings live (I was 3 ), and I do remember the news about Woodstock, but just barely. I remember Nixon's impeachment, and the end of the Vietnam war.. Tumultuous times, not all that different from this epoch here.

i have a fascination with the vietnam war.
i have no idea why, but i find it intriguing.

[gotcheese2768]

i say 9/11 enough said.

[bear]

I don't really remember much before 9/11, considering I was only 7 when that happened. I'm sure there's other important events that I experienced before that, but none of them really stick out at me.
yeahh, me too. that day was so strange.
and i remember bush being elected:sick:

[ImLovingGuyBerryman]

yeahh, me too. that day was so strange.
and i remember bush being elected:sick:

ick. i like not to think of that.

[strawberryfields]

Oh yeah, I remember Bush being elected too. :disappointed:

[bear]

i remember i cried when he was elected and i didnt know why.
kinda funny now i look back:lol:

[ImLovingGuyBerryman]

i remember i cried when he was elected and i didnt know why.
kinda funny now i look back:lol:

it's completely understandable. i was in second grade so i doubt i cried...but im pretty sure my parents might have :lol:

[strawberryfields]

I was too young to know anything about politics, but I definitely would've cried if I knew better.

[The Escapist]

the olympics in australia in 2000 and the 9/11 attacks

[coldplay_is_louve.]

well the one that really pops out in my mind is 9/11.

and i just barely remember when clinton was inaugurated.

[MrMagpie]

Wow, I'm old!:laugh3: I have to say I remember seeing some of the lunar landings live (I was 3 ), and I do remember the news about Woodstock, but just barely. I remember Nixon's impeachment, and the end of the Vietnam war.. Tumultuous times, not all that different from this epoch here.


:laugh3: You old fossil you!

[Ms Magpie]

Umm, the Slovenian Independence War. Was too young to actually know what was going on, but I remember how we went to an underground shelter because of planes and tanks and all that stuff.

Hmm...

Bombardment in 1999. Don't know how they called it, but I know they attacked Serbia. I was 4. I think it influenced memories of my friends, probably all of us remember going to the basements, the sound of alarms and airplane engines, etc. :hug:

[MrMagpie]

Wow thats crazy.
I just find it so abstract to think about war since I've never been in it.

[Violet]

Oh, I remember when Clinton got elected for his second term. I believe I was in the first grade.

[Ms Magpie]

I hope you never will be, Briggs.

Those were some fucked up times.

[MK]

Umm, the Slovenian Independence War. Was too young to actually know what was going on, but I remember how we went to an underground shelter because of planes and tanks and all that stuff.

In the early 90s? I'm glad I was born after that! I heard all that rush in those years was awful! :hug:

:hug:

:nice:

Wow thats crazy.
I just find it so abstract to think about war since I've never been in it.

Be grateful. Serbia takes place in a lot of wars. I think I have never heard about a war that Canada was included in?

[Ms Magpie]

In the early 90s? I'm glad I was born after that! I heard all that rush in those years was awful! :hug:Yup, I was almost 3 years old when that happened. People from other ex-YU countries came to Slovenia because the situation there was better than in their countries. That was happening between '93 and 95' I think.

[Saffire]

Wow thats crazy.
I just find it so abstract to think about war since I've never been in it.

I agree, it's remarkable to think about how easy it is to convince people that a war is just.

I guess it works on the same principle as taxation. "Well everybody's doing it, and if I don't do it then I'll go to jail. So yeah, here's half of my paycheck!"

Government = Groupthink.

[General Smut]

My first memories include the Hillsbrough disaster, Maggie getting kicked out of office, the first gulf war, world cup 1990 and Mr Frisk winning the grand national.

[aniskywalker]

For me the demolition of the wall in Germany. I was just on a demo when I heard the borders are open.

[General Smut]

Yea I remember that as well! forgot about that. Come to think about it I remember hearing about checkpoint Charlie alot on the news in the late 80's.

Can't believe they got the Hoff of all people to sing on the Berlin Wall.

[bellynelly]

Probably Lady Diana Spencers wedding to Prince Charles, I remember making Union Jack flags and sticking them to Rulers to wave when we watched it live on tv at primary school!!!! I was about 4 or 5.

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

i see most answers are 9/11 related.
sorry for that Nina :( i didn't knew that. I think (here) we've been told few about what happened there.

Mine was a concert, i remember my dad recording The Wall concert when i was 3 or so. But i don't think it can be considered really and Historical event.

Next important event i can remember is when my country was back to the world in 1992, with the Olympics and Expo, but i have few memory of that, just i remember it for the importance it had and for some commemorative things i have.

[Black Rose]

The night Princess Diana was murdered by Price Philip

[Mattolinko]

911.
I was six when it happened, i can't remember much before that.

[Jenjie]

crikey! I feel old reading some of those.

my earliest would be the wedding of Fergie & Prince Andrew in 1986.

[Fixed]

Probably 9/11. I thought the world was ending, I thought I was going to get conscripted into the army to go and fight in Afghanistan or Iraq or wherever the hell was going to be invaded. I was so scared. And the pictures of the planes crashing. For no reason at all. All that death for no reason whatsoever. I cried.

[Fixed]

Oh yes, I forgot about Diana's death. I'm sure there are a probably a few other things that happened, but the first BIG thing that came to my mind was 9/11 because I remember exactly where I was when I heard about it and all that.

[Black Rose]

I was at school doing work at the time the planes hit.

[lndnsky]

War. I was 2 when it stared... Serbia attacked Croatia. The war was 5 years long, many people died and it influenced me and everyone here. I still hate fireworks cause it gets me back to all those bombs that hit my house and my town. And it was terrible. I remember my dad going away and my mum crying and times when we hadnt heard anything from him for more than 10 days and my mum gave birth to my brother and my dad find out about that 5 days later. And it was something Ill never ever forget.

[Larry]

Fall of the Berlin Wall! :)

I was 4 and I will never forget that special day. The news announcer on tv suddenly said something like "I can't believe the news we've just got in." It seemed so unreal. My parents were crying because of happiness after that. Always have to think about that moment everytime I visit Berlin. :)

[melanieau]

Probably Lady Diana Spencers wedding to Prince Charles, I remember making Union Jack flags and sticking them to Rulers to wave when we watched it live on tv at primary school!!!! I was about 4 or 5.


Me too:D Except my dad programmed our brand new VCR to tape it since the time difference had it occurring very early in the morning at our house. I'll never forget seeing all that dress come out of that carriage!

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

:curtain:

really interesting answer, and sorry for the :( ones.

[Ceckers]

England losing to Germany in the Euro 1996 final on penalties (I believe) :(

[onute]

I thank God the awful historical moments came to an end that year when i was born.

I remember when we joined EU and NATO. Bush came to our country and people were thanking him, I dont know why. :shrug:

Also when our basketball team won the match against the invincible USA team in Athens Olymphic games.

[Stargirl]

9/11, I saw it on the news once, when i was very young...:(

[Texasluvsjonny]

Wow, I'm old!:laugh3: I have to say I remember seeing some of the lunar landings live (I was 3 ), and I do remember the news about Woodstock, but just barely. I remember Nixon's impeachment, and the end of the Vietnam war.. Tumultuous times, not all that different from this epoch here.Yah I'm not the only one. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. My dad got me these cool Apollo paper models from the Gulf station, you know the old insert tab "A" into slot "B" things. :lol: Hurricane Camille caused flooding where I lived and the National Guard had to come evacuate us from our house and my stupid brother almost fell off the truck. :rolleyes: Earliest would have to be my sister making my mom drive around to store after store until she could find a copy of The Door's- Light My Fire.

[nancyk58]

I am young :D enough to have lived when President John F(itzgerald) Kennedy was murdered in Dallas in November 1963. I was 5½ years old and vaguely remember sitting in the living-room and the TV set was on. My parents were watching the news - I vaguely remember the picture of the car with the President being murdered / shot and his shocked wife Jacqueline ("Jackie") Kennedy sitting by his side in the car.

This event was indeed historical. I sometimes wonder what President Kennedy would have been remembered for if he had had the chance to finish his term.

Now he is one of the most famous (and popular, I think) presidents of the USA. But had that been the case if he had lived on? Of course, we will never know! But what if ...?

[colduser]

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. 1986

[Space Invader]

Princess Diana's death...
When Chavez won the elections... 11 years ago... :( such a sad day
then 9/11 ...

[Electric.Candy]

It has to be Princess Diana's death as well. I was in kinder. Then I would always hear Elton John's Candle In The Wind (the Lady Di death version) on TV.

[an angel]

I remember the 2000 election, if that counts as a historical event...
And definitely 9/11.

[Lizzybear]

Monica Lewinsky scandal



how sad, that is first thing i remember :P

[secretspy]

I would have to say 9/11 as a lot of people have, i was in the third grade and i remeber i heard about it in "Mac Lab" my two teachers were talking about plains and i thought that my one teacher was booking a trip as they were around the computer watching something... i knew later what happened at lunch but i didn't really understand completely

[the_gloaming09]

for me it was either the Oklahoma City Bombings or TWA flight 800

[an angel]

I never heard about the Monica Lewinsky scandal because I was too sheltered. :dozey:

[the_gloaming09]

Monica Lewinsky scandal



how sad, that is first thing i remember :P

haha... bill clinton.... what a pimp

[howyousawtheworld]

Remember Diana death but not much of it though as I was like 6 and a half. So definitely 9/11 for me. Teacher switching on the tv to show us a video, and there it was on the screen, though we were spared of images of the world trade centre with pictures from Washington. Only when I got back home did I switch on the tv and see the full horror of everything from New York, having learnt that both towers had collapsed.

[pickle]

honestly, probably 9/11 for me :\ i was in first grade, so i barely remember any of it :shame:

[an angel]

honestly, probably 9/11 for me :\ i was in first grade, so i barely remember any of it :shame:

You're so young! :cheesy:
I was almost 11 at the time.

[pickle]

:p

[Space Cadet]

Heh... perhaps appropriately, the very first thing I can remember of the wider world is when the Berlin Wall came down. First there were all the pictures on tv of people tearing the wall apart. Then a few days later, a kid's game show I used to watch had a contest that had something to do with getting slimed by a jelly wall or something like that in honour of it.

Probably the next big thing after that was the whole Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo thing. It was inescapable- all over the news. And very scary in hindsight- I find it hard to believe now that I was old enough to have understood that case at that age. But I guess I did.

You're so young! :cheesy:
I was almost 11 at the time.

:uhoh:


I was 19. It was my first week living outside of the country for the first time. Kind of traumatic.

[chuck kottke]

Heh... perhaps appropriately, the very first thing I can remember of the wider world is when the Berlin Wall came down. First there were all the pictures on tv of people tearing the wall apart. Then a few days later, a kid's game show I used to watch had a contest that had something to do with getting slimed by a jelly wall or something like that in honour of it.
>>YAY!! 20th anniversary today - hard to believe it's been that long!! I was in college at the time, and we all celebrated with amazement, watching the world wake up from history. My cousin Lawrence was by sheer coincidence there at the time, and took some pieces of the wall home - he gave them as Christmas gifts, and was kind enough to give one to me - so here I have a piece of the wall, half-way around the globe and two decades later..:) (I still recall the drunk guy who walked on the wall in that famous footage - quite a night to remember!!). <<

Probably the next big thing after that was the whole Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo thing. It was inescapable- all over the news. And very scary in hindsight- I find it hard to believe now that I was old enough to have understood that case at that age. But I guess I did. I was 19. It was my first week living outside of the country for the first time. Kind of traumatic.
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That escapes my memory.. what was it all about?

My first historical memory was the lunar landings - it was unforgettable, and I was only 2 or 3 years old at the time... amazing to think we could have done such a feat!