Clearing command history from terminal

Is there a way to clear all the history of remembered commands in Terminal? I am referring to the "Run Command" box after "New Command" is selected showing the most recent command highlighted and a collection of recent commands in a "scroll down" underneath this. They wont delete permanently. Same ones reappear each time box is closed and "new command" is selected.
Is it any problem if I am unable to clear them? I believe it is normal for the computer to remember these recent commands. Thanks

Thanks for reply. First, I am referring to the history of remembered commands as shown in the drop down that appears after "new command" is selected and includes the last command entered, which is highlighted. Is this what you understood I was referring to?
Second, by "bash" do you mean the window that appears when terminal is opened? The window I am seeing is titled "terminal-tcsh-80X24" Lower down it says "welcome to Darwin" plus some other text. In an article "Mac OS X: How to change the Terminal shell" it is written that tcsh as default is meant for pre 10.4 systems and bash as default for 10.4 (which I am running). Does this mean I have the wrong default shell?
Third, I never use Terminal. I don't understand Unix and only got into this by accident (too long a story). I just want to make sure I haven't disturbed anything that will upset the computer. Since all of this is unfamiliar I would be grateful for an answer that includes more detail and explanation. Thanks for your patience.

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