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If You Could Have Personally Witnessed One Event In History, What Would It Be?

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I would love to have spent one day with members of the original colonies deciding on the contents of the Declaration of Independence.
 
Texas School Book Depository in November of 1963 to see if Oswald fired the shots.
 
December 5, 1933, the day prohibition was repealed.

I bet the after party was ****ing siiiiick.
 
That's a good one. I was trying to think of an event that is questionable on what really happened, like that one.

Well you could have been at bedside for Obama's birth.
 
The first moon landing.

In which case, the famous line would be "One small step for ma......hey, how'd you get here?!"
 
The life of Jesus christ
 
In the conference room when Eisenhower said "We go"!
 
I would love to have spent one day with members of the original colonies deciding on the contents of the Declaration of Independence.

Either the discovery of fire, or when Rome burned while Nero played his fiddle. (Or lute, or whatever he was playing, I forget. I just remember he was playing a musical instrument on top of a roof and watched the city burned.)
 
Either the discovery of fire, or when Rome burned while Nero played his fiddle. (Or lute, or whatever he was playing, I forget. I just remember he was playing a musical instrument on top of a roof and watched the city burned.)

It’s been pretty easy to cast blame on Nero, who had many enemies and is remembered as one of history’s most sadistic and cruelest leaders—but there are a couple of problems with this story.

For one thing, the fiddle didn’t exist in ancient Rome. Music historians believe the viol class of instruments (to which the fiddle belongs) was not developed until the 11th century. If Nero played anything, it would probably have been the cithara, a heavy wooden instrument with four to seven strings—but there is still no solid evidence that he played one during the Great Fire. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that Nero was rumored to have sung about the destruction of Troy while watching the city burn; however, he stated clearly that this was unconfirmed by eyewitness accounts.

When the Great Fire broke out, Nero was at his villa at Antium, some 35 miles from Rome. Though he immediately returned and began relief measures, people still didn’t trust him. Some even believed he had ordered the fire started, especially after he used land cleared by the fire to build his Golden Palace and its surrounding pleasure gardens. Nero himself blamed the Christians (then an obscure religious sect) for the fire, and had many arrested and executed. But while Nero may have been guilty of many things, the story of him fiddling while Rome burned belongs firmly in the category of popular legend rather than established truth.
:) there ya go
 
I would like to be in the room with Eva Braum and Hitler when they took the pill and Adolf put a piston to his head. I would like to have witnessed the look on his face.
Also I would love to sit and talk with Vincent Van Gogh.
 
Personally I would like to be present at the launch of Apollo 11, or if we get to be anywhere we wish, without worry about enviroment, on the Moon watching Armstrong step off the ladder.

Those of you wishing to be way back in history such as at various battles, might wish for the no woory clause as well.

Even those who would have liked to be at the signing of the Declaration of Independance (presumably that of the fledgling USA) might want period applicable clothing and be advised not to speak. You'd stand out as rather odd otherwise.
 
Entertainment wise it would be Woodstock.

Jimi, The Who, Creedence CWR, Santana, Janis

Killer.
 
Texas School Book Depository in November of 1963 to see if Oswald fired the shots.

Top floor hotel room overlooking the Pentagon, with a powerful telephoto lens and video cam, to film what really happened that day.
 
The origin of human life.
 
:) there ya go

Huh. You learn something new every day. Thank you for the correction, otherwise I might have referenced it to someone in person who knew more than I did about the subject and ended looking like an idiot.
 
In the courtroom when the Booth conspirators were tried.
 
I suppose you mean human history, but I'd pick the extinction of the dinosaurs. Getting to see actual live dinosaurs would be a dream come true. Then on top of that, getting to see a massive asteroid collide with the earth would be too awe-inspiring to imagine.
 
The first moon landing.

In which case, the famous line would be "One small step for ma......hey, how'd you get here?!"

Correction:

"One small step for ma... hey there's a fresh corpse here."
 
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