Events That Changed The World

[The Omega Man]

Dropping of the first atom bomb must surely be high up on the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay

No one ever dropped an equivalent one since in combat due to the concept of MAD and the clear destruction of anything and everything in its path.

Stopped WW3 from happening? Ironically it ended up keeping the peace between Russia and the USA?

 

[Montys Cat]

In my lifetime the Twin Towers

 

[jcrossan]

Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. Two world wars might have been avoided if his driver had taken a different route

 

[Deleted member 37772]

Fred West.

 

[Twelve3]

In my lifetime the Twin Towers

Huge, marra... so much has changed because of this... especially here in the States...

 

[Montys Cat]

For a natural event I would say the Tsunami

 

[heroesof73]

Internet being available

 

[richmutey]

The Berlin Wall, both it's construction and destruction.

 

[Hair Flick]

Yuri Gagarin going into orbit around the earth.

 

[willin']

The Berlin Wall, both it's construction and destruction.

This for me too with the collapse of communism in other European countries.

 

[---Nemo---]

The Industrial Revolution. Or Henry the Eighth deciding the Pope could go fuck himself.

 

[The Spezial One]

The Sub Prime crisis of September 2007.

 

[SeahamMackem]

Satellite tv has ruined the pub trade, turned nations into fat slobs and put a price tag on all of the best sporting events, whilst killing the atmosphere at them.

 

[richmutey]

I would also like to add The Renaissance, enriched the world in terms of art, literature and architecture.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

The Holocaust - there'd be no Israeli state without it I suspect.

 

[richmutey]

The Holocaust - there'd be no Israeli state without it I suspect.

Interesting thought, had the Holocaust not happened what would the Middle East be like today?

 

[Hair Flick]

Satellite tv has ruined the pub trade, turned nations into fat slobs and put a price tag on all of the best sporting events, whilst killing the atmosphere at them.

Blame Yuri Gagarin.

 

[Charmless Man]

Discovery of Penicillin.

 

[Craggsy-SAFC]

French Revolution Begins in Paris (1789)

 

[The Hooded Claw]

Battle of Kursk