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[Calon]

for homework in college i must think of 2 incidents,2 dates and 2 ideas that were turning points in history...i have 1 if each already.

incidents - i have 9/11
ideas - martin luther king "i have a dream speech"
dates - 22/11/63 assassination of JFK

can anyone think of anything,ill be very grateful.

thanks.

[mccfluff]

incidents - ww1 or ww2
ideas ghandi
dates 1066

[mccfluff]

incidents - ww1 or ww2
ideas ghandi
dates 1066

[Calon]

ooo yeah,good ones.
thanks.

[Scylax]

I suggest 24 Oct. 1929 ('Black Thursday'), the Wall St. crash, which plunged the world into deep recession.
Also 28 June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, precipitating the First World War.
1348 was a grim date too: the worldwide pandemic of the Black Death (pneumonic plague).
August 1945 saw the first use of nuclear weapons.
The prehistory invention of the wheel was pivotal (!).
Also 1848, the first use of anaesthetics.
Britain's Industrial Revolution was a collective superidea
which changed the world dramatically.
More suggestions if you wat them......

[Octavius]

6 August 1945 is one I would pick.

[Calon]

thanks skylax plenty of things there i can use :D

[dot.hawkes]

The black girl and other black students trying to gain access to the High School in Little Rock Arkansas in the late 1950s was a symbol of the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement in the US that made a difference.

[B00]

Moon landing date?

[dot.hawkes]

1969 b00

[B00]

I know dotty, I was trying to remember date...which I think is 29 June '69.

[B00]

Oh bu88er, just googled it, it was July 20th.

[Peter Pedant]

Hmm first anaesthetic in England was Dec 1847, reported Jan 1 1848 Lancet and didnt really change practice - surgical antisepsis and asepsis did change practice

What about one idea which wasnt reckoned to be a big deal at the time and one idea that was ?

Galileo was one of the first.

Plank and quantum mechanics was the first - and Einstein was one of the second

Robert Koch's researches in bacterial culture is one of the last. [and so was Pasteur's]

Newton and Leibnitz were ones of the first

Curie was one of the first - she got her Nobel prize before she got a Ph D

Dates wh were turning points

1580 assassination of WIlliam the Silent

1688 Accession of Wm III and supremacyof parliament

1789 French Rev

1812 Defeat of Napoleon in Russia

1914 of course

1952 Death of Stalin

1989 Fall of Berlin wwall,

[jno]

B00 I think the moon landing was a different date depending where you lived (ie already tomorrow in some parts of the world).

Tim Berners-Lee and the invention of the world wide web has changed life more dramatically than anything else in my lifetime; more than Gandhi, say.

1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue...

[suffragette]

Incident- August 6th 1945. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima didn't just kill thousands, it actually changed the way warfare was used, or not used in political conflicts.

Idea- 25th March 1807. The Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. After this date, any ship's captain would be fined �100 for every slave he was caught transporting. This was the culmination of a long and protracted human rights conflict.

Date- September 2, 31BC The Battle of Actium. If Cleopatra and Mark Antony had defeated Octavian there would have been no Roman Empire and the cutural experience of Europeans today would be a very different one.

[Man-dy]

Scylax - I think you mean the BUBONIC plague.

[akeel1701]

Second Punic war (218 to 202 BC) In particular the battle of Cannae. Hannibal came so close to wiping out Rome!

[bricro]

Certainly the "internet" in my lifetime.
Has anyone mentioned "The Crucifixion"?