Name any historic event you would like to have witnessed

[pepperbear]

The night the Beatles recorded the orchestra for A DAY IN THE LIFE.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Jimmy Carter's Second Presidential term in 1980 n/t

Then there is a story, long story. Seeing it would be grand.

But the sowing of the forest ceremony in honor of a special lady. But you would have to know the rest of the story to know that one. Its from a book, so not really the same, but history stories are in books also.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Excellent reply. I would like to have seen that, too...

:banghead:

[jobycom]

18. You do know how to bring someone to tears.

:thumbsup:

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. The resurection of Christ

Being there to witness just what did or did not happen would have a profound affect on ones view of the world. As it takes speculation to certainty.

Close runners up would be Building of the Pyramids, Sphinx, the great Cathedrals of Europe, Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel.
And really would have been cool to actually be with Neil Armstrong for the Apollo 11 mission.

[jobycom]

19. Eh, face it.

We could be there and still argue over what happened. Half would see a miracle, half a hoax. :)

[Dogtown]

47. OP requires "historical".

not "hysterical".

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Bush's final departure from the White House on Marine One

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. My conception.

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Not really.
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Really, really, REALLY not really.
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I was just lowering the bar for everyone else.
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[A HERETIC I AM]

12. The late comedian Dennis Wolfberg had a funny bit sort of along those lines....

"The latest thing is to film the birth, but since my wife and I filmed the conception, we felt it would be entirely superfluous!"

Here's a vid of Dennis circa the 80's;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3Be9MxTSw

[MrCoffee]

6. The Second Defenestration of Prague

Kicked off the Thirty Years' War, it did.

[Captain Hilts]

45. That was FASCINATING!! Good call! It's always fascinated me. nt

[Dogtown]

48. Good one, MrScorpio.

Obscure.

[struggle4progress]

7. I would have liked to see Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter, 1939

[Captain Hilts]

46. Oh yeah....nt

[bif]

8. The crowning of Charlemagne.

[Aristus]

9. Continental Congress's vote on Virginia's Resolution on Independence.

July 2, 1776.

I was going to write 'the signing of the Declaration of Independence', until I remembered that that took place a month after we voted to become independent, and that signatures were added over a period of months and even years.

[Rambis]

10. Religion be more humane

more accepting, less warlike and intolerant of others views and if not, off with their heads!:hi:

[azmouse]

11. The signing of the Declaration of Independence

I'd like to hear what was talked about as the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia.

[Tikki]

13. August 16th, 1974....

First night the RAMONES played CBGBs....



RAMONES at CBGBs in '77..

Tikki

[Walk away]

32. I worked that night, moonlighting for my day job at BMI

They used to pay me and a friend $20 each plus cover and two drinks to sit at clubs and write down at least five BMI songs. I also saw Blondie's debut, Television, Patti Smith and the night the Plasmatics destroyed their amps and instruments. I spent 1975 thru 1981 being paid to go into small clubs as a spy all over NYC.

[Tikki]

35. We saw them so many times out here...

on the West Coast...at least three times we took our pre-teen boys with us.
We never got really close to the stage...
Loved Joey from a little distance.


The Tikkis

[Walk away]

41. When I was a nineteen year old intern at Masterdisc my friends and I...

used to do lines (it was another era) with Joey at Danceteria. They would do a one or two song, unannounced set right on the floor and then we would all hang out until three in the morning.

In a lot of ways I was a bit of an innocent but I worked in the music business for years so I had an entre. I wish I could take my nieces on a tour of those days. Then again....maybe not.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. The World Series in 1966, 1970 and 1983.

Because lord knows it will be a long time until the Orioles win another one of those things.

[abq e streeter]

15. Elvis, Scottie and Bill breaking into an impromptu "That's All Right Mama"

in a little studio on Union Avenue in Memphis.

[abq e streeter]

16. A few random others: V-J Day in Times Square, Dock Ellis's LSD no-hitter

Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world"
Jim Abbott's no hitter ( for those of you not familiar with this remarkable and inspirational man, Jim Abbott was born without a right hand.On September 4th, 1993, he pitched a no hitter at Yankee Stadium against the Cleveland Indians.)
One of Bruce Springsteen's legendary shows at The Bottom Line in 1975 ( although I did see them in Chicago just a few weeks later)
Paul Revere's midnight ride ( with or without The Raiders)
Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech
The jail doors slamming behind Karl Rove ( what? this STILL hasn't happened ?)
Robert Johnson's last gig, and Buddy Holly's too ( kinda morbid I guess; sorry)
The expedition of Lewis and Clark
The Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe river

[XemaSab]

21. VJ Day

Lewis and Clark, Marco Polo, the voyage of the Beagle, anything at all from any ancient civilization (my top pick would be Egypt, but I would be perfectly happy with ancient Europe, Mesoamerica, or the Holy Land), Che's road trip through South America...

...any of these would be quite nice. :)

[Captain Hilts]

52. VE Day was a big deal too. In NYC Eleanor Roosevelt was walking down the street

and folks saw her and it looked as though she was going to be used as a cage-ball in the celebration, so a couple of cops overpowered her "I'm perfectly fine" and made her get into a cab. The cab driver noted that she didn't look all that happy and she said, she was but that "My sons are in the Pacific." He wouldn't take money from her for the ride and, instead, got her to sign a dollar bill. Wonder what THAT's worth!

[jobycom]

17. I only want to view future events.

Namely, future stock market and Super Bowl results. Then I want to come back to the present and view investments from an historical context.

Barring that, I'd have loved to see the American plains covered in herds of buffalo.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. Nice post, Biff.

[la_chupa]

20. I have no idea

I've thought about it and it seems to me that everything that ends up being historic doesn't sound like a good thing to have been around for at the time.

Storming the beaches of Normandy - oh heall no

[XemaSab]

22. The French Revolution

double oh heall no

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire --

Growing up here, those days are a powerful mythology for us. To have a peek at pre-event SF and the aftermath would be something I would love to experience.

[Auggie]

30. You'll get your wish, 21st-Century-style. Eventually.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

43. Too true! :D

I have my earthquake kit all ready to go.

[geardaddy]

24. Too many to mention...

here's a few:

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
The declaration of the establishment of the PRC in Tian An Men Square
See Patti Smith, the Ramones, Blondie, The New York Dolls, The Talking Heads at CBGB.

[one_voice]

26. I have more than one..

I would liked to have seen Joe Luis beat the dog crap out of Max Schmeling.

Seeing Jackie Robinson's first MLB game.

Seeing women given the right to vote.

[madinmaryland]

27. The two year reign of Richard III.

[miscsoc]

53. doesn't sound much fun to me

although i'll admit i only know the shakespeare version

actually...i only know the movie adaptation of the shakespeare version, haha

[flvegan]

28. The arrest of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. The signing of the Declaration of Independence

Just to be in that room when the Founding Fathers got up, one by one, to sign that document. To see Thomas Jefferson in the flesh...

Also, to witness, live, The Beatles playing...well, just about any time. Or to be in the studio with them.

[Maccagirl]

31. Yep, July 4, 1776 and Shea Stadium baby

n/t. Another poster said witnessing the resurrection would answer...well just about everything.

[Captain Hilts]

59. Feb. 9th, 1964. nt

[Bucky]

33. 22-11-63. Behind the fence.

I'm convinced all the reports of activity on the Grassy Knoll are really sightings of time travelers who've come back to disprove that conspiracy malarkey, thereby inadvertently creating the basis for all that conspiracy malarkey.

Failing that, I'd like a corner seat and a small video camera to sit in Independence Hall for the summer of 1787, just to watch how the minds that made up our constitution interacted and cut back room deals to make the brilliant political document in history. The more I study that Constitution, the more it just blows me away.

[gl_5500]

34. Al Gore winning the 2000 election

[muffin1]

!

Hell fucking yes.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

36. Hmmmmm...

The resignation of Nixon, even though technically I witnessed it at four years old...

[denbot]

37. The K T boundry impact..

High definition and slow-mo thank you please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event

[Lindsey]

38. I agree with Al Gore winning the election of 2000 (which he did)n/t

[tblue]

39. When Frodo dropped The Ring into the fires of Mordor.

Or maybe when the Ents destroyed Isengard. I also would have loved seeing an Ent Moot.

[Art_from_Ark]

40. Stanley meeting Livingston

It's not really the highest on my list, but it hadn't been mentioned yet so what the heck.

[raccoon]

42. I can't think of a historical event, but I'd like to have met Brian Wilson and his brothers,

all the Beatles, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and Elvis before they became famous.

I could add other musicians to that, too.

[BlueIris]

44. Crash of '29.

Was watching a PBS thing about it last night with interviews of witnesses on the floor of the stock market that day. The interviews had been done in the 1970s, I think. Early '80s, maybe. They described the chaos vividly--experienced traders running around with sell sheets as if they had totally forgotten where to take them to actually sell their falling stocks. Sounds entertaining, in a really bleak way.

[BurtWorm]

49. I would like to bring condoms, diaphragm and spermicide to the conception of George W. Bush

[Tom_Foolery]

50. Woodstock...

and many others.

[kayakjohnny]

51. First steps on the moon.

Kind of a biggy.

[miscsoc]

54. don't worry, nobody else witnessed that either

look at the shadows, man. the only thing anyone saw was some dudes wandering around in a studio in california

OPEN YR THIRD EYE

[liberaltrucker]

55. The signing of the Magna Carta

True, I wouldn't comprehend English as
spoken at the time, but, just to have been
there knowing the significance!


:wow:

[CBHagman]

56. I'd like to have seen VE Day and/or VJ Day.

Of course the first place I think of is New York City, and the second is London.

[Captain Hilts]

58. Or the liberation of Paris. nt

[quakerboy]

57. Bush doing coke while skipping out on his ANG service

Coulda netted me, what was it, 10 grand? Plus done the country a big ol favor in the mean time.

[AsahinaKimi]

60. Filming GOJIRA!

Being at Toho Studios, that would have been awesome!