What historical moment do you wish you could have witnessed?

I wish I could have witnessed so many moments in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, from the race riots in Detroit & Harlem in 1943, to Rosa Parks' bus stand in 1955 which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and from the foundation of the Black Panther Party in 1966, to the riots that followed Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr's murder in 1968; but if there is one single moment I wish I could have witnessed, it would have been King's "I Have a Dream Speech", delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963. For a few moments, he gave a community hope that many of them had never felt before, and many more wouldn't feel again for quite some years. It was the defining moment of the movement, and one of the defining moments of the 20th Century.

What historical moment do you wish you could have witnessed?

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Reply 1

necessarily benevolent

Perhaps the beheading of Charles I.

Reply 2

Ascient

Not really what I would pick, but seeing as I've just read your signature and am about to PM you about it, I'll say Jesse Owens' phenomenal performance at the 1936 Berlin games.

Reply 3

KiiNGofLONDON

Ascient

Not really what I would pick, but seeing as I've just read your signature and am about to PM you about it, I'll say Jesse Owens' phenomenal performance at the 1936 Berlin games.

What would it really be? I would have loved to have witnessed that, particularly the awards ceremony.

Reply 4

Ascient

KiiNGofLONDON

What would it really be? I would have loved to have witnessed that, particularly the awards ceremony.

I really couldn't pick just the one. On the same lines as above, seeing Smith & Carlos in '68 would also have been a privilege.

Reply 5

LukeySherlock

Nirvana's headlining performance at the 1992 Reading Festival :smile:

Reply 6

diorbaby1687

stalins younger years when he was a poet
that
or elizabeth I's birth

Reply 7

taco23

Obama's speech at Grant park would have been cool also i would have liked to have seen 9/11 so i could fully realise the horror that took place.

Reply 8

turk1453

Conquest of Istanbul by the Ottomans in 1453.

Reply 9

ghanglish

The last coronation maybe (195-something). Just for the lulz.

Reply 10

username293212

1933, One of Hitler's speeches, I don't support it, but it is amazing how he spoke and how he could swing the people to him and it was a huge moment of the 20th century(except my German is awful).