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Probably the earliest political event I have any kind of direct memory of would be the 2000 election. 

9/11 would probably be the second one.

Yoooouuuunnnggg.

I have one tangential memory related to the first Gulf War, and a little more about the 1992 election.

mine is the 2008 election

my parents supported obama, this other kid’s supported mccain. he said “mccain was a prisoner of war” and i said “but isn’t being a prisoner usually bad??” and he looked stumped.

“usually bad”

Taking care to avoid the noncentral fallacy in grade school, good job.

I have vague memories of news reports relating to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when I was 3.

I watched Yeltsin‘s resignation speech in 1999 in real time. I remember adults and satirical TV shows talking about the Russian financial crisis in 1998, as well as the Lewinsky scandal, but only vaguely. And I equally vaguely remember stuff about the First Chechen War.

I remember the Australian 2007 election when I was 11.

A coup in Fiji, likely 2006.

There was something about same sex marriage on the TV but I can’t remember what. I don’t think the ABC would have bothered reporting on a random American state legalising or outlawing it, and it was long before Prop 8. It wasn’t the time that the ACT tried to pass an actual marriage bill. It could be something about civil unions. It could be the 2004 legislation redefining marriage to be explicitly been a man and a woman.

Oh you adorable darlings. My first political memory is Nixon resigning, 1974.

The Berlin Wall coming down, 1989. I was 6 and thought tearing down a concrete wall with sledgehammers looked pretty cool.

The end of the Iran hostage crisis, 1981. I was 7. I also remember being outraged at Reagan beating Carter.

The whole Iran-Contra “I don’t recall” debacle.  I think I was like ten.  I do vaguely recall the Berlin Wall coming down as well, but it doesn’t stick out like my hatred of Reagan does.

Princess Diana’s death in 1997. I was 4 at the time and I still remember the mountain of flowers and sympathy cards that were placed outside of Buckingham Palace.

It’s a toss-up between Watergate, and the Vietnam war.  The thing is I don’t remember hearing the adults talk about it that much, at least not in my hearing?  But even though I was very small, I remember reading Doonesbury, which I loved, and he was doing strips about both things at the time.  So I didn’t necessarily “get” the strips, but on some level I found them really funny?  (Especially the ones about B.D. being taken as a POW by Phred the Vietcong soldier.)

I feel like it was the Challenger explosion (if we’re counting that as a political situation) or Olliver North.

I remember being quite young and hearing Regan speak. I don’t remember what about, but he sounded smart and reasonable to my child brain.

For me, it was probably Bill Clinton’s re-election.

I have the most vague and formless memory of having seen President Ford on television, but the first actual event I remember hearing about was President Carter winning the election.

I’m guessing either the 1979 oil crisis or the Iran hostage crisis. It all sort of ran together at the time, for obvious reasons. Wasn’t old enough to understand at all what was going on in either case, but the media saturation made it all hard to miss.