If you could observe one historical event, what would it be...?

[First Speaker]

...I'm not talking about a time-machine where you'd actually be there; more like watching it on TV, but you could see it from any, or all, angles. I'd like to learn something definitive about a classic historical mystery, and I guess I'd inevitably set my TV to Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Whatever really happened, if I could just goddam *see* it, I'd be satisfied. How about the rest of you?

[hlthe2b]

1. Oh, nothing tragic, that's for sure...

Maybe the landing on the moon (all angles, all pov of those involved, the emotion of all who watched and prayed).


Yes, I saw it when it happened, but I was very young and it is all a bit of a blur.

[4139]

3. 'I was there...'

https://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Lyin+brian+williams+on+the+moon+americas+most+famous+liar_9bbedc_5449600.jpg

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. don going to jail in a chain gang w the gop congress who conspired w russia.

[rzemanfl]

5. +1. n/t

[PJMcK]

4. When the Senate votes to convict Trump

That will be an historical event.

[dchill]

6. The erection of the Tower of Babel.

Seriously, though, Dealey Plaza. November 22, 1963. Still feeling some kind of way about that.

[Itchinjim]

7. The impeachment/resignation/funeral of Trump.

Doesn't matter which as long as he's gone.

[exboyfil]

8. Resurrection of Jesus

[dameatball]

9. Mr. Peabody says "Hold my beer,"

[Cartoonist]

10. The Cavern Club

The night Brian Epstein met The Beatles.

[MaryMagdaline]

11. Gettysburg Address

[7wo7rees]

12. This would be a Buzz...

[Harker]

18. From launch to splashdown. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Robert Lee surrendering.

[Historic NY]

14. Yorktown Oct. 19 ,1781 when Cornwallis feigning sickness sent his 2nd to surrender British forces

to Gen George Washington. Indeed it was a "world turned upside down". I'd like to be with our Town Supervisor & former Town Clerk Gen. James Clinton, he's there on horseback.


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[FSogol]

44. I was in Yorktown on Thursday. Cool place to visit. n/t

[empedocles]

15. For me, nothing compares with seeing this traitortrump fiasco;

from all angles, all these inside or learned perspectives, the intriques, the unbelievable stupidity, the applied DSM casebook - hard to imagine anything like this.

[randr]

16. Woodstock

Richard Nixon farewell

[MicaelS]

17. Exactly what I would do. n/t

[Tikki]

19. 1835..Charles Darwin observing and sketching birds and flora on the Galpagos Islands.

Tikki

[Leith]

20. Hitler's Last Hour

which was probably in the bunker. And a few hours after that because I suspect that Russian soldiers took the bodies.

[Upthevibe]

28. I highly recommend you watch the movie "Downfall." It came out in

2004.

[VOX]

45. A flawless film.

And hands-down the best film on that particular subject/time/place.

[TXPaganBanker]

21. I'm gonna go big here... The Big Bang

I wanna see the answer to the mystery no one can solve. They can get close. They can get to a millionth of a second after. But I wanna see what's there before, and see the actual kick off of life, the universe and everything.

[Aristus]

23. 42...

[qazplm135]

35. but there was no free-standing photons

so I'm not sure you could have "seen" anything. Took 380K years for photons to break free and illuminate the universe.

[Aristus]

22. The assassination of Julius Caesar.

"Et tu, Brute?" has become so lodged in cultural history, it's easy to overlook the fact that contemporary sources closest to the incident report that Caesar said nothing at all during the attack, and was more concerned with covering his legs, with their varicose veins, and his face, so no one would see it as he died, than saying anything dramatic.

I'd like to be able to set the record straight once and for all.

[Upthevibe]

29. Hi Aristus......

I see you have the weekend off....

[Aristus]

39. I do.

How are things down there in the California Republic?

[PassingFair]

24. Runnymeade... 1215

Or the signing of the Declaration of Independence

[Yavin4]

25. Trump's sentencing hearing.

Oh what a day that will be.

[unblock]

26. Poppy and/or other Reagan campaign people paying Iran to keep Americans hostage longer.

[Anon-C]

27. August 4, 1997 when Skynet became self-aware.

[Thyla]

30. Dinosaurs

The last days of the dinos or even just watch them doing whatever it is they did.

[gopiscrap]

31. November 22-25 1963

I was in Germany at the time (5 years old) and not able to understand the English being spoken, but did pick up the German from the broadcasters, but most profound was viewing my parents sorrow and the enormity of the even. I would like to view that from an adult perspective

[3catwoman3]

32. President Obama's...

...inauguration. Or maybe being in Grant Park that first election night.

[Lebam in LA]

34. Not historical but trump stroking out on live tv would be fun

I like to look forward, not back

[catbyte]

36. VJ Day, for selfish reasons.

If my Marine Raider dad had gotten shipped off to Japan (he was actually waiting on the dock in San Diego to ship out) there's a really good chance I wouldn't be writing this right now. So either on the dock in San Diego to see the relief on my dad's face, or Times Square to see this:

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[FiveGoodMen]

37. I'd like to see the surveillance footage of the tomb from which Jesus supposedly escaped

[Rustynaerduwell]

38. I watched Apollo 11 launch

From the VIP section of Cape Kennedy. That's enough for me.

[MLAA]

41. Cool!

[NBachers]

40. The building of the pyramids.

Dealy Plaza from all angles would be a second.

The Liberation of Paris, and the ensuing celebration, would he a hoot to attend.

[FSogol]

43. The building of Machu Picchu would be pretty cool too. n/t

[FSogol]

42. Can I go along? The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

On edit, seeing the Celt settle Ireland around 500 BC would be pretty cool too.

[VOX]

46. The mass cavalry charge of the Australian Light Horse on Bersheeba, 10/31/1917.

There is something about this event that I've found compelling for years. It's the ANZAC's victorious flip-side to their disaster at Gallipoli two years earlier.

http://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/beersheba
Beersheba The Charge of the 4th Light Horse, 1917
The Battle in Brief

The charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917, is remembered as the last great cavalry charge. The assault on Beersheba began at dawn with the infantry divisions of the British XX Corps attacking from the south and south-west. Despite artillery and air support, neither the infantry attacks from the south, or the Anzac Mounted Division’s attack from the east had succeeded in capturing Beersheba by mid-afternoon.

With time running out for the Australians to capture Beersheba and its wells before dark, Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, the Australian commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, ordered Brigadier General William Grant, commanding the 4th Light Horse Brigade, to make a mounted attack directly towards the town. Chauvel knew, from aerial photographs, that the Turkish trenches in front of the town were not protected by barbed wire. However, German bombing had forced the 4th Brigade into a scattered formation and it was not until 4.50 pm that they were in position. The Brigade assembled behind rising ground 6 kilometres south-east of Beersheba with the 4th Light Horse Regiment on the right, the 12th Light Horse Regiment on the left and the 11th Light Horse Regiment in reserve.

The Australian Light Horse was to be used purely as cavalry for the first time. Although they were not equipped with cavalry sabres, the Turks who faced the long bayonets held by the Australians did not consider there was much difference between a charge by cavalry and a charge by mounted infantry. The Light Horse moved off at the trot, and almost at once quickened to a gallop. As they came over the top of the ridge and looked down the long, gentle open slope to Beersheba, they were seen by the Turkish gunners, who opened fire with shrapnel. But the pace was too fast for the gunners. After three kilometres Turkish machine-guns opened fire from the flank, but they were detected and silenced by British artillery. The rifle fire from the Turkish trenches was wild and high as the Light Horse approached. The front trench and the main trench were jumped and some men dismounted and then attacked the Turks with rifle and bayonet from the rear. Some galloped ahead to seize the rear trenches, while other squadrons galloped straight into Beersheba.

Nearly all the wells of Beersheba were intact and further water was available from a storm that had filled the pools. The 4th and 12th Light Horse casualties were thirty-one killed and thirty-six wounded; they captured over 700 men. The capture of Beersheba meant that the Gaza-Beersheba line was turned. Gaza fell a week later and on 9 December 1917, the British troops entered Jerusalem.

[Upthevibe]

47. Not necessarily the one and only but one that

comes to mind is MLK "I have a Dream" - The March on Washington -

[Donkees]

48. Explore Manahatta before it became Manhattan

“After a decade of research (1999 – 2009), the Mannahatta Project at the Wildlife Conservation Society un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan, one of New York City’s five boroughs. The Welikia Project (2010 – 2013) goes beyond Mannahatta to encompass the entire city, discover its original ecology and compare it what we have today. Welikia means “my good home” in Lenape, the Native American language of the New York City region at the time of first contact with Europeans. The Welikia Project embraces the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the waters in-between, while still serving up all we have learned about Mannahatta. Welikia provides the basis for all the people of New York to appreciate, conserve and re-invigorate the natural heritage of their city not matter which borough they live in.”

This is an extraordinarily visual way to walk the path of purpose and see the swamps and forests and paths gradually change and become home of the Empire State Building and every place we know in New York City. For a place that to me can seem unconnected to simple living things to be seen as a wild place of nature just like everywhere else in the world is powerful.

http://quixoteconsulting.com/Blog/2011/02/15/manhattan-or-manahatta-%E2%80%93-sleuthing-out-what-came-before/