Top 5 World Events In Your Lifetime

[Gemmel]

Following on from the 9/11 thread from a day that changed the world, I was thinking what were the top 5 world events that have occured in my lifetime. Given the diversity of ages on here, it will be intresting to see who has been around for what and also what people conso as the most important.

 

This isn't about your wedding day or the birth of your first child, but world events that have affected us all (Negatively or positivey). I suspect that my list could change on any given day, so before you all shout me down for not including some momentus occassion, like the end of the cold war etc. bare that in mind.

 

As a 41 year old, in no particular order;

 

1) 9/11 - I think that speaks for itself.

 

2) Aids - No specific event or date, but as a child of the eighties, this new disease, that would kill us all if we weren't careful

 

3) Financial Meltdown - that we have all witnessed and has impacted all of our lives, one way or the other.

 

4) IRA ceasefire - From the continual threats and murders and never believing it could be resolved, to ultimately getting there.

 

5) Apartheid - The break up of apartheid and a real sense of "right overcoming wrong"

[buctootim]

Are we including Big Brother evictions in this?

[Dimond Geezer]

1) Man on the moon - I'm too young to remember (I was 2 at the time)

2)Live Aid

3)Death of Diana - Didn't affect me, but a lot seemed upset about it.

4) 9/11

5) Berlin wall and the genaral fall of communism in Europe

6) Interweb - although not really an "event" as such, which is why I snuck it it at the end.

[Dog]

WW1

WW2

Tsunami

Hillsborough

Moon boots

Edited 12 September, 2011 by Dog

[scott_saints]

The Gareth Gates v Will Young Pop Idol final was one to remember.

[ecuk268]

1. Landing on the moon

2. Saints winning the Cup Final.

3. The Internet

4. Cuban missile crisis (remember someone at school telling us we'd all be dead before we went home).

5. John Lennon's death.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Don't really know, Berlin Wall came down when I was about a month old. 9/11 obviously, nothing else really seems in the same league. I guess some of the Royal Family sh*t.

[keithd]

I is 43, the events that remain in my mind for one reason or your mother are (in no particular order)...

 

1. 9/11

2. Death of Diana

3. "Cold War" betwixt US and USSR. Seemed almost inevitable in the early 80's there would be a nuclear strike on somebody, there were even tips on how to protect yourself on TV

4. Berlin Wall coming down

5. First Iraq war. Watching a cruise missile flying down the road on TV made me realise that wars are fought diffently than what I was used to seeing in WW2 films and documentaries

[HK_Phoey]

I am also 43,

 

1) 1969 Man walking on the moon, (although only 1 year old at time)

2) 1990 Berlin Wall coming down

3) 2004 South East Asian Tsunami, living in Singapore at the time have a lot of friends in Thailand.

4) 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami as I was in Tokyo at the time.

5) 2001 9/11

[miserableoldgit]

9/11

Kennedy Assasination

Moon Landing

Cuban Missile Crisis

Collapse of Communism (Berlin Wall)

 

Actually, thinking about it, the death of John Lennon had quite a profound effect on me being a teenager in the 60`s so I`ll have 6 if it`s allowed.

Edited 12 September, 2011 by miserableoldgit
Pedantry!

[Huntingdon]

9/11

Death of Diana

Continual IRA threat during 70's and 80's

Internet

Jill Dando's murder

[Dog]

9/11

Death of Diana

Continual IRA threat during 70's and 80's

Internet

Jill Dando's murder

 

Why, were you a suspect?

[aintforever]

1. Schneiderlin scored

2. 9/11

3. Berlin wall fell down

4. End of Apartied

5. The Internet

[View From The Top]

1. 9/11

2. 1st Gulf War (as I was there) Falklands War (family and friends served)

3. Mandela being released

4. Boxing Day Tsunami

5. Berlin Wall coming down

 

I really should have put Diana's death on the list as it was such a major thing, one of those "where were you when you heard" events but the gratuitous grieving made me want to puke.

[Verbal]

I can do quite a long list just for the US, but the top three there would be:

 

1. The assassination of JFK (yes, I remember where I was...)

2. The resignation of Richard Nixon (I heard it live on my first trip to the US)

3. 9/11 (which was very inconvenient)

[Ruffo]

9/11

Indonesia tsunami

Christchurch earthquake

Japan earthquake

[dubai_phil]

Moon Landing

9/11

Falklands

Indonesia/Thai/Sri Lanka Tsunami

Chernobyl

 

Moon Landing - the day we woke up to Science I suppose

9/11 - enough said by better people than me

Falklands - Affected people I knew but also perhaps the first time since the war UK stood up and did something that worked

Tsunami - Affected people I knew and places I knew. My neighbours for one

Chernobyl - The creeping fear and not knowing/trusting

Edited 14 September, 2011 by dubai_phil

[Saint-scooby]

No order

 

9/11

Diana

Moon landings

Space shuttle "first one that went bang"

Derek Wood and David Howes "left a long lasting bad feeling"

 

 

I could add

Hungerford

Dunblaine

Lockerby

Chernobyl

Five mile island

Falklands

Berlin wall

Kuwait invaison and following war

keith Moon

Mountbatten

76 FA cup

Iraq

Black Monday

87 storms

Claus scores

[Viking Warrior]

1 Death of Churchill

2. Turkish Invasion of Cyprus and the events leading up to it in 1974

3. Mountbatten and warren point

4, 9/11

5 christmas Tsunami

6 assaination of Robert kennedy

[badgerx16]

1) the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland - the first step on the path that culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall.

2) Chernobyl

3) Six day war - so much geo-political fallout as Israel becomes the dominant military power in the region

4) The Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah - a focus for Islamic fundamentalism thereafter.

5) The Russian invasion of Afghanistan - put Bin Laden into a position of power as the CIA armed him to the teeth

[Trader]

End of war in Vietnam, yanks running away (strategic withdrawal)

Suez crisis

Kennedy assassination

Collapse of Eastern bloc communism

2007-2009 Wall Street debacle (still ongoing)

 

I suspect that the current Arab struggles in many countries will be added to that list in the future.

[Joensuu]

Depends on your perspective really. In 100 years’ time, the passing of Diana or the IRA ceasefire will be footnotes in the history books. I'd warrant, the top 5 events of my lifetime (to date), will eventually be considered to be:

 

1) Rapid (and unsustainable) increase in world population.

2) Rapid (and unsustainable) consumption of world's resources.

3) Rapid (and unsustainable) increase in global temperature.

4) Development of rapid, affordable, public global communication (internet, satellite transmissions etc.)

5) The continuous cycle of shifting world power: (Rise of China (2000-present); Rise and decline of the USA; Collapse of Communism (89/90)).

[jjsaint]

I would say two very big ones were left off:

 

1. The assissination of Rabin in 1995, IMO the death knell for peace in the Middle East.

2. Pakistan's acquisition of the bomb. The instability of Pakistan worries me more than Israel, N Korea or Iran having nuclear weapons.

[alpine_saint]

9/11, Falklands, Live Aid, 1976 Cup final, 1981 Headingley Ashes Test

[Dog]

Chernobyl

[Special K]

Don't want to repeat some of the above, but add

 

Balkan War (particularly the genocide at Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo)

Glasnost

John Lennon murdered

Tiannaman (sp?) Square

Falklands "conflict"

Rugby World Cup 2003

Frannie Benali crosses halfway line

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

Can't believe some people have put Diana being killed.

 

1. 9/11

2. Invasion of Iraq

3. Berlin Wall coming down & end of cold war

4. Release of Mandela and end of Apartheid

5. SE Asia tsunami

[rpb]

9/11

Kennedy Assasination

Moon Landing

Cuban Missile Crisis

Collapse of Communism (Berlin Wall)

 

Actually, thinking about it, the death of John Lennon had quite a profound effect on me being a teenager in the 60`s so I`ll have 6 if it`s allowed.

 

This (but substitute John Lennon with Buddy Holly).

[Colinjb]

In chronological order (From 1984 on):

 

1) The Chernobyl Disaster

2) The Fall of The Soviet Union (I'm not going to say Communism, there's still plenty of it out there.)

3) The end of Apartheid

4) The Yugoslav civil wars

5) 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.... and:

6) The Tamil Massacre at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.... Almost ignored by the world's media but utterly horrific.

 

I would also hope that the end of dictatorships in North Africa/The Middle East (E.g. Egypt, Libya, Syria and Bahrain) and the rise of Moderate Democratic Islam in those nations will soon be something to add.

Edited 14 September, 2011 by Colinjb

[rocknrollman no2]

1-Man landing on the moon(remember watching it at infants school and everyone saying we will be living on the moon in the next 30 years).

2-Elvis dying(this resulted in the radio playing lots of 1950s rock n roll,which lead to my love of this music).

3-Falklands war(even though we had fought in conflicts since ww2,this was actually happening on our tvs and when the sinking of HMS Sheffield was announced,i remember the room full of people where i was being stunned into silence).

4-Berlin Wall coming down(this lead to the end of the cold war,something i didnt think i would see in my lifetime).

5-9/11(for obvious reasons).

[Hamilton Saint]

1. England win the World Cup

2. men walk on the moon

3. Chernobyl

4. fall of the Soviet Union

5. 9/11

 

And the death of John lennon hit me pretty hard.

[Johnny Bognor]

Rudi Skacel signing.... a memory that will stay with me forever

[hamster]

Meeting DubaiPhil and Tiger on the 18th at Paultons last week.

[Micky]

Memories:

 

Man on Moon

Warrenpoint & Lord Mountbatten

Falkland Islands

Lady Di

9/11

 

Some because of their obvious global impact and some because I was in some way 'associated'. For instance, on the day of the Warrenpoint / Mountbatten attacks I was in an operations room monitoring radio networks and heard it unfolding first hand - probably the bleakest day of my life.

[dubai_phil]

Meeting DubaiPhil and Tiger on the 18th at Paultons last week.

 

Jeez you must have been ****ed. It's still only two weeks since my knee Op & I ain't even allowed out the house at the moment unless it's back to the Hospital.

 

Paultons was some 17 weeks ago.

 

Now be sensible for once and don't spoil a serious thread

[SuperMikey]

At the tender age of 19, I can claim to have lived through dozens of world-changing events. I suspect we will see dozens more before I die in 10 years time.

 

The world population is rising rapidly, I think we'll encounter quite a few more problems with that in the next decade or so.

[Kingsland Codger]

Assassination of JFK

Moon Landing

First Oil Shock

Fall of Berlin Wall and subsequent liberation of the Eastern Bloc

9/11

 

The Moon Landing is an odd one. Clearly it was a Huge World Event but it didn't have as much a long-lasting impact as, say, the US defeat in Vietnam.

[Dog]

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