I had to do some detective work but I discovered that on Jul 4 2012 I was on a bushwalk with my husband and son. Thanks Google photos. We would have had a discussion about it as it was Big Science.
Are you familiar with Nick Cave? Now I have this song stuck in my head.
A great summary history!
a guarantee of more than 50 years of super-cool physics due to the Higgs boson
This makes me immeasurably happy for physics people.