Warren Buffett is one of the most admired people in the investing world, and for good reason. He has been at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A 0.07%) ( BRK.B -0.01%) for close to 60 years, and in that period, has increased the stock's value at an average annual growth rate of 19.8% -- versus 10.2% for the S&P 500 over the same period.

Warren Buffett sure as heck remembers. He wasn’t born yet (he’s old, but not that old), but we know that he knows because it was memorialized in a front-page New York Times article on May 10 of that year,

Investors are plowing money into the two largest ETFs that track the S&P 500, the broadest measure of the U.S. stock market. But each has different bragging rights.