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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 [/ QUOTE ] I think that this list is very good. |
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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. |
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born in 1973 Roe v Wade comments: 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. [/ QUOTE ] I was 73 as well, I have never heard of roe vs wade. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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 [/ QUOTE ] You have lived through a lot of [censored]. |
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Born: 1949
JFK Assasination RFK Assasination MLK Assasination Armstrong Moon walk Nine eleven events |
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