# What's the Earliest Historical Event You Can Personally Remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378 "2009-04-17T03:49:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/181 "2010-02-10T02:39:06Z")
I remember a TV report on the 2000 Presidential Election but very vaguely and more clearly the TV coverage of the Septermber 11th Attacks. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/182 "2010-02-10T02:44:40Z")
JFK assasination. Preempted cartoons, I was six. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/183 "2010-02-10T03:18:16Z")
The 1949 inauguration of Truman. We were the only people on the block with a tv. Everyone was invited–and came. Watched the 1952-3 inaguration of Ike from the rooftop of the Evening Star Newspaper where my dad worked(in D.C.) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/184 "2010-02-10T03:18:46Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > I remember a TV report on the 2000 Presidential Election but very vaguely and more clearly the TV coverage of the Septermber 11th Attacks. Waitaminute, are you still a _teenager_, General? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/185 "2010-02-10T03:25:11Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Waitaminute, are you still a _teenager_, General? Thirteen. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/186 "2010-02-10T03:35:30Z")
I remember the time zombies laid siege to the White House, disrupting coverage of the 2010 Olympic Games. Stupid zombies and their anti-sports agenda. It’s hardly our fault that they lack in speed and dexterity. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378/187 "2010-02-10T03:39:14Z")
I can remember back to 04-29-2009, when this thread last died. Doin’ the Zombie Stomp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-historical-event-you-can-personally-remember/493378.md?page=9)