Historical event you would have liked to have witnessed?

[meesterperfect]

I was thinking What a sight that must have been to see The Titanic go down from one of the lifeboats.
That must have been incredible, overwhelming,, although horrible.
Little Big Horn, D-Day, Battle of Bosworth come to mind also.
The execution of Ann Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Moore and other historical english events..........ect ect.

If you could go back in time to witness an event, but not be part of it, invisible per say, unable to interact,which would it/they be?

 

[Ulysses31]

There could be loads but I guess the Jack The Ripper killings, a shocking event at the time and Victorian London seemed to have some great character.

See the building of Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

 

[rizwano]

the day porn become legal

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

That's an interesting one, the Titanic sinking. I think I'll go with that one.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

I would have liked to see Hitler kill himself. I think that would have been an amazing sight to see.

 

[ThatRedWing]

The Battle of Greasy Grass, D-Day and Iwo Jima.

 

[maildude]

Captain Fitzgerald's destruction of the slave fortress in Sierra Leone.

 

[PirateKing]

The duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro
Battle of Thermopylae (300 to most people)
Slave revolt led by Spartacus
The Golden Age of Pirates

 

[pool_hustler]

The resurrection of Jesus Christ (if indeed it happened)

 

[bustybbwlover]

the hindenburg disaster
socrates questioning me in the streets
the platonic academy
aristotle's lyceum

...i'd need some ancient greek for those last three

 

[Facetious]

Any of the Apollo lift offs
and I'd like to see the very last space shuttle reentry, but that is a future event.





Seriously, I wish that I was in attendance of this airshow to see how irresponsible this pilot was. . . . hot dogging around and putting his 3 crew members in peril, not to mention the lives of countless spectators and ground crew.

 

[Facetious]

Two more . . .

The trampling at Mecca

To have heard aviation histories' first sonic boom out of Chuck Yeager's X-15 rocket plane.

 

[CherylFan]

um, does "seeing Holly Willoughby losing her cherry" count...?

 

[GodsEmbryo]

Seeing Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Van Eyck, ... at work
Simply a regular day in my hometown Ghent during 1600's, 1700's to see how it looked like then
Building of the pyramids and other
Quit a lot of battles actually (D-Day, Battle of Koersk, Battle of the golden spurs (1302, Flanders), Battle of Waterloo, ...)

 

[sualcalay]

yep, resurrection of Christ here too.

 

[Shifty]

The D-Day Invasion.

 

[emceeemcee]

The trampling at Mecca

I wish you could have been there as well

 

[Ulysses31]

I would like to have seen the original (Ancient) Seven Wonders Of The World, when they were started and what they looked like finished etc

Great Pyramid of Giza
http://media02.hongkiat.com/awe-inspiring_landmarks/Sphinx-Egypt-Photography.jpg

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
http://thegardensblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hanging-gardens-of-babylon.jpg

Statue of Zeus at Olympia
http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/c/c6/Statue_of_Zeus.jpg/300px-Statue_of_Zeus.jpg

Temple of Artemis
http://www.billmunnsgallery.com/images/SWGTDE3.jpg

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dHj0_yTcK4Q/TF5MqmyDBqI/AAAAAAAAD0M/skG3v65qlRo/s1600/mausoleum0.jpg

Colossus of Rhodes
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3866163128_46f720980f.jpg

The Lighthouse of Alexandria
http://www.talkgirly.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/lighthouse_of_alexandria.jpg


Not a wonder but the Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXEu_j2PfRJpjwBHDAbO-7I082dCZY3xLnohoNHrlFf1cS_44rSg


I'd also have liked to have seen the Black Death as it unfolded throughout Europe as well as the English Sweat which killed the infected mysteriously in minutes and eventually disappeared without a trace several centuries ago.

ps Can't believe no one has said they wish they could go back to the time of the Dinosaurs

 

[Supafly]

The day when Christine O'Donnell dabbled into witchcraft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqHpN4SbqVI

 

[emceeemcee]

ps Can't believe no one has said they wish they could go back to the time of the Dinosaurs

The only reason I would want to go back to prehistoric times would be sample some of the animals. I don't think a dinosaur would taste very good for some reason though and would be too hard and risky to catch and kill so I'd probably stick to the Triassic period I'm sure there were some fantastic mammals on the menu back then.

I've always wondered how prehistoric humans knew how to cut the umbilical cord after the birth of a child or did they cut it all? That would be worth going back to find out I think. And what was prehistoric sex like between men and women? Did they ever fuck for pleasure?