What's the earliest historical event in your memory?

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There was an announcement that school was closing early, and it was quietest school bus ride I'd experienced, except for some quiet sobbing from our driver. I was 7.

Birth. I was rereading my diary. Day 1, still tired from the move.

Pluto will always be a planet in my heart 🥺

The assassination of President Lincoln. I remember the night of the show that Lincoln and his wife attended at Ford's Theater, Our American Cousin, was broadcast on TV. I remember the gunshots then everybody in the audience went crazy. It was a real panic in the theater. Never saw anything like that on TV before. I never forgot that. Then I switched to CNN and Wolfe Blister to get the whole behind-the-scenes story. I videotaped the whole thing. Wonder what happened to that tape? 🇺🇸

I remember people talking about Sputnik and the Soviets, but didn't really get the meaning of it all.

President Kennedy's funeral. I was only two.

Richard Nixon resigning the presidency in August of ‘74. I was 7.

Probably when I was in elementary school, and the teachers were talking to us about Desert Storm. I don’t remember specifics of what they said, but one kid started crying. I think his dad was military. Teachers freaking kids out over the news.

Mt St Helens, probably. Actually, remember NYE 1979. I was 4. Also blizzard of 77, i was 2.

Edit, i would have been less than 2 in 1977. Trauma memory - just one image i remember.

The first that I can remember that I actually paid attention too was probably the first walk on the moon.

First American in space - 1961, I think

JFK’s assassination. I remember my mother telling me what had happened and watching the news on tv.

The 1976 bicentennial.

The trial of Adolph Eichmann in '61.

JFK assassination

I saw the aftermath of Croatian war in 1998. Damaged buildings with scattered holes from the bullets in their walls. Three years ago I saw a video where a guy showed walls just like that which means some of them still weren't repaired to this day.

Gulf war being on every bloody tv channel, genocide in eastern Europe, genocide in Rwanda and Boris Yeltzen dancing.

When we landed on the moon in 1969.

Challenger explosion in 1986, watched in school on a tv wheeled into the classroom.

One two three -jfk rfk and MLK.
Then we shot the moon with a rocket with men inside.

For me it was the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy (JFK) assassination.

Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

I would say the Vietnam war.

First moon landing 1969

9'11

The new millenium. Y2K

9/11

Gulf War. I remember hearing on the radio that we were at war.

Probably something to do with rebels. Like a lot of gen xers, I first heard the word from Star Wars, and they were the good guys. When I was hearing about this un-good-guy behaviour from the news I found myself asking my mother "are rebels good guys or bad guys?"

Is that where Bard is from?

The fall of Saigon, on my fifth birthday in 1975