Top Five Events of Your Time

[GBP04]

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No specific order here
1) Collapse of the Soviet Union (I include end of the cold war/fall of the Berlin wall in this)
2) September 11
3) The creation (if you want to be a nit, widespread adoption) of the internet/personal computers
4) Modernization of China/India
5) Creation of the EU


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I think that this list is very good.

[daveymck]

Its intersting for me that a lot of what you guys are classing as worldwide events had little or no impact on me.

Eg Oklahoma Bombing, Reagans change in policies and a few others I dont think had that much of a worldwide impact.

I think there is a overvaluation of the EU thing as well we are no where near being a United States of Europe, not sure if the impact worldwide is that strong.

Quite a few of mine have already been mentioned but I would add the Ethiopian famine and the response of the world via Bob Geldolf and live Aid. I suspect though that this again is a UK based thing as the BBC really broke that story and we had the shocking images on every news report for weeks.

Black Wednesday but I think that more affected Europe, and probably wasnt as bad to me personally as the recession of the late 80's which saw the yuppie culture of britain come crashing down.

I think the Internet and 24 hour worldwide news is having a huge affect on the world generally now and maybe moreso in the future.

[daveymck]

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born in 1973

Roe v Wade

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r v w may be more US than worldwide, but it is a key event in the history of one of the most powerful nations on earth.


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I was 73 as well, I have never heard of roe vs wade.

[mute5]

A little younger perspective, born 1987. Obviously I don't remember some of these events, but I see them as having the most impact of all events during my lifetime.

1) Fall of the Berlin Wall (collapse of Communism in general)
2) 9/11
3) Propogation of the Internet
4) Rise of rap culture
5) Seemingly yearly genocides somewhere in the world

I guess these really weren't in order, and I'm too lazy to go back and reorder them. In order: 3,1,2,4,5. If anyone's interested in why just ask. And daveymck, maybe I just don't get your older humor, but you're kidding about never having heard of Rowe v Wade, right?

Oh, and I think that in 15 or 20 years the modernization of China, which is going on currently, will quite possibly be #1 on my list.

[daveymck]

Why would I, I have never looked into American abortion laws and we dont study modern american history or law in the schools here.

I dont really know how the congress and senate works in the US I am sure likewise you dont for the UK or France or whoever else.

[sandycove]

1944 (I’m older. I get more. The first two overshadow the rest. They continue to resonate.)

1944 The Holocaust
1945 Hiroshima

1947/1954/1964 J. Robinson/Brown v Board/Civil Rights Act

1949 Chairman Mao/People’s Republic of China
1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 JFK Assassination
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Vietnam War
1969 Man lands on the Moon
1973 First international computer connection/WWW
1974 Nixon resigns
1989 Berlin Wall falls
2001 9/11

[Isura]

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1944 (I’m older. I get more. The first two overshadow the rest. They continue to resonate.)

1944 The Holocaust
1945 Hiroshima

1947/1954/1964 J. Robinson/Brown v Board/Civil Rights Act

1949 Chairman Mao/People’s Republic of China
1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 JFK Assassination
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Vietnam War
1969 Man lands on the Moon
1973 First international computer connection/WWW
1974 Nixon resigns
1989 Berlin Wall falls
2001 9/11

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You have lived through a lot of [censored].

[Toro]

Born: 1949

JFK Assasination
RFK Assasination
MLK Assasination
Armstrong Moon walk
Nine eleven events