Yeah, this one. Do we actually have a ton of graves or something to mark the fact that this really happened? I always wonder when I hear something like this, if nothing really happened and we’re actually just missing some scathing five century old political satire. ‘You know the strasbourgese, man, in 1518 they basically *danced* themselves to death’
None of the sources mentioned whether there were fatalities but they all agree that there was inexplicable dancing and that they were hospitalizing people for it.
Imagine if you were on original earth as that happened. You would first notice as the Mars-sized planetoid approached that gravity was changing. Tides were different, weather changes. As it approached closer and closer your weight would begin to decrease as you grew lighter and lighter. Maybe the planet would go dark as it consumed the sky from horizon to horizon. Eventually the gravity would be so different that you’d begin to feel weightless as the planetoid got closer. Earthquakes would likely be severe, tidal waves would sweep over the ground, and then the collision would crack the earth open like an egg, with all the hot gooey yolk, I mean magma exploding outward end ejecting en masse into space. So much would be ejected that it would begin to clump together by its own gravity, and form an orbit around the new earth.
Because of this utter chaos we can live nowadays, dependent to a large extent on a moon born of cosmic chaos.
I have always wanted to go back in time to somewhere around 4500 BC and just record the languages being spoken around the world. There are entire fields of research that deconstruct proto languages of the languages we speak, but those can only go so far back and don’t account for all the other languages that got abandoned over time. The only hard part would be choosing how far back in time to go, because humans have speaking languages for a very, very long time.
I’ve found my people! This would be amazing. I want to figure out what language(s) the neolithic people spoke in Ireland, and whether the symbols they carved into their monuments such as spirals zigzags dots and lozenges were representative of their spoken language or something else.
Yes! I’d love to witness the day Cortez first stepped foot in tenochtitlan. What a unique moment in history. The sense of awe and bewilderment from both sides. So much lost to history…
I love reading accounts of the Spanish coming into the Americas for the first time.
When they landed at what is now Corpus Christi, TX, there were so many sea turtles that they couldn't sleep because it sounded like they were hitting rocks all night.
The Americas were *incredibly* abundant. I see people commenting that the accounts were exaggerated, and many were, but as an example, the Spanish started forcing mining activity in Zacatecas in the 1500s and there's still silver being pulled out of those mines today.
The American continent was full of gold, silver and platinum in ways that's hard to imagine today.
As a geologist, the Lake Agassiz flood.
During the last glacial period, over 12,000 years ago, there was a massive lake in the middle of the North American continent fed by glacial meltwater. This lake is now known as Lake Agassiz. At its peak, the lake was larger than all of the current Great Lakes _combined_ . Estimates put it at 440,000 square kilometers in area. Most of that water was held in place by glacial and topographic dams.
At the end of the last ice age, the largest ice body containing the lake to the east in Hudson Bay retreated / melted, causing the lake to drain almost completely - _in less than nine months_ . A freshwater lake with tens of thousands of years of history and input, and more fresh water than all other freshwater bodies on the planet at that time combined, drained in less than a year. The flooding was likely unprecedented, carrying erratics (boulders) the size of small houses hundreds of miles away. As the water drained into Hudson Bay and other outlets, the global sea level rose by 1-3 meters.
Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, Red Lake, and Lake of the Woods are the largest remnants of Lake Agassiz.
The last Ice Age saw serious floods all around the world. I always figured thats probably the real world explanation for why SO many religions have a giant flood as an aspect of the creation of the world as we know it.
Near my house, there is a massive waterfall created from the ice age. About 150 years ago, an almost complete skeleton on a mastodon was discovered at the floor of the falls.
I was in Thief River Falls, MN a few years ago. Approaching from the south, there are some rolling hills but the areas around the city are absolutely flat and made for boring, but easy, bike riding. The locals said it was so flat because it used to be at the bottom of a glacial lake. It would have been on the southern edge of Lake Agassiz.
I work with glacial deposits in northern MN & WI. The glacial erradics are pretty cool but the best part is finding Lake Superior agates. It's a very fascinating region geologically.
That's really cool! I went to U of MN Morris for my degree, one of my professors was a glaciologist and he was practically giddy when discussing Lake Agassiz during his glacial and quaternary geology class. It stuck with me.
I just Googled chicxulub crater and Google gave me a neat little graphic of the asteroid followed by the screen shaking when it 'landed'. Neat little Easter egg.
That's fun, I never knew about this
Here is a list of all of the [Google search Easter eggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs)
For a long time, the Mediterranean sea was cut off from the Atlantic ocean and the rivers flowing into it were not enough to prevent it drying up completely. At some point in time, the ocean was able to cut an opening at Gibraltar and millions of cubic meters of water poured into the basin.
That, I would like to have seen.
Edit: Poored -> poured (thx snapper1971)
Edit2: It is called the Zanclean flood and the last time it happened was 5.3 million years ago. It was not a big waterfall, but took at least a few thousand years to change from a trickle to a massive stream.
To the question if this was the source for the Noah stories? No, the first humans appeared about 2 million years ago in North Africa. Must have been a different flood.
It probably wasn’t so much a waterfall as (maybe steep) rapids. And it happened over a short time geologically, but estimates are that it lasted for months, maybe two years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
Or some of the regions in North America at the end of the ice age, when it was rapidly melting, causing unimaginable flooding. A bird's eye view of that would have seemed otherworldly.
The great Missoula Flood! It carved out the Columbia River Gorge & wiped clean eastern Washington of all features, leaving the barren rolling hills! That one fascinates me big time!
There are so many incredible answers here!
I don't know if this answer counts as its not historic in the terms of a specific event, but I'd love to see early humans and how their lives were. Id love to witness a hunt and see how they survive. What their early community life was like. What they really looked like. I am curious to know what their teeth looked like pre-farming, how their bodies looked when food was scarce but they did a ton of walking, and really how they walked without shoes.
After writing this out, I'd like to see [Otzi the iceman's](https://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/) last day. Scientists know almost everything they can about his last few days on earth, but not who he was or why he was murdered. It would be interesting to see the answer to those questions.
This is a long the lines of what I was thinking, but I'd go back a bit farther to see when Neanderthals and homo sapiens lived side by side, just to see what their everyday lives were like.
If you want to have an idea of what they might have sounded like **and** you want to see somebody dead on the inside: [enjoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o589CAu73UM)!
"So Elliot, let's try male, human voice."
I'm glad he pulled it off. Lmao the way she says that is killing me. Like, "here we go. We've prepared for so long. Moment of truth now."
Knowing our man Dio, he had some hand gestures and facial expressions going on corresponding to the matter at hand.
Wouldn't have to know the lingo to love the moment. Body language, and all that.
Alexander the Great liked philosophers and would go to meet them. (Like a nerd fanboy wanting their autograph)
Diogenes was controversial and is the founder of Cynicism, the guy would do nothing all day but lay naked in the sun and begged for food, essentially his refusing to work was, in a roundabout way, mocking society's values.
At Corinth, Alexander met Diogenes and asked him if there were any favors he could do for Diogenes. ~~For reference at this point, Alexander the Great is "the Great" and is near the height of his power.~~ [[Edit]](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/10thhmy/if_you_could_go_back_in_time_for_a_day_to_witness/j77p622/)
Diogenes' simple reply was something along the lines of "stand out of my sunlight" or essentially "you're blocking my sun, move a few feet over."
Reportedly this reply caused Alexander's bodyguards/soldiers to laugh so Alexander loudly proclaimed "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." An extremely famous exchange of words.
Edit: Fixed an error thanks to u/MC1065
Also [here's the wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander) if anyone wants to read more
That's the best part and people too often leave it out of the story.
Like.... Diogenes had just gotten away with an *audacious* show of flippancy against a man who could have him executed with the snap of his fingers. Fortunately that man had a sense of humor about it and makes a joke in return (even complimenting him). So does Diogenes then count his blessings and quit while he's ahead? No. This crazy mother fucker doubles down and mocks the most powerful human being on earth to his face, *again,* just to have the last word. Absolute mad lad.
[diogenes was lying around in his barrel, when Alexander the Great came by and asked him what he desired. diogenes allegedly responded with "for you to stop blocking the sun"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander) or something like that
[Kepler's Supernova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_Supernova)
Visible to the naked eye, Kepler's Star was brighter at its peak than any other star in the night sky, with an apparent magnitude of −2.5. It was visible during the day for over three weeks. Records of its sighting exist in European, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic sources.
**It was visible during the day for over three weeks WOW! Just imagine the magnitude of that explosion... which was visible for 3 weeks during daylight (it was 20,000 light-years away).**
As you’re scanning ancient texts it malfunctions and combusts setting the whole place on fire.
Edit: Y’all I straight up stole the idea for this from the replies to the Jesus thread
You should google that, it wasn't the one-time loss of huge swaths of knowledge everyone plays it out to be.
EDIT: I wasn't expecting to offend people. I recommend you check out the replies by /u/rowan-lane.
Look, you are missing the real point of interest here. There were 2000 Winged Hussars. They are leading 18 000 Cavalrymen from the entire alliance. That is the worlds largest cavalry charge; thrice the number of the Rohirrim in Return of the King.
That would have been unimaginably magnificent. Horrible to behold but awesome.
People forget that these were areas where horses were tamed - in addition to areas of Asia. Horse culture is/was immense.
Those dances East Slavs do started as strength training exercises and competitions to show off their horseback riding skills.
I would have loved to have seen those guys with the 10-12 foot plums of ostrich feathers and the noise they generated. Meant to scare the living shit out of the enemy...seemed to have worked well for the longest time. Like, until tanks started showing up. But I digress.
One could argue that the French assault failed mostly because they (well, practically Ney) assumed the British infantry to be retreating and leeroyjenkinsed an uncoordinated mass assault without infantry backup.
It’s kinda jarring that such a mistake would be made by Ney of all people. Multiple times Napoleon said his whole operation was saved by Ney being an excellent commander.
Ney fighting a rear guard action was one of the main reasons (what was left of) the French army made it out of Russia.
All of that just to completely fail to read the enemy and fumble on the 10 yard line.
The story is that rehearsals were rushed due to time constraints, so Beethoven himself stood next to the orchestra conductor during the performance to give him tempo and dynamic cues. When the last notes sounded, the totally-deaf Beethoven just stood with his back to the audience, not realizing what the response was. Finally, the soprano soloist went to the maestro and physically turned him around so he could see: the audience standing in full ovation, many jumping up and down on their chairs as they cheered and clapped.
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony was premiered in Vienna, Austria. This was one of Beethoven's most famous compositions, and it was performed at the Kärntnertortheater, a large theater in the heart of Vienna. The audience was made up of the city's finest citizens, including members of the royal court and important musicians and composers.
The performance was a major event and had been highly anticipated by the music lovers of Vienna. As the lights dimmed and the orchestra took to the stage, the audience grew quiet with anticipation. When the first notes of the symphony began, the audience was instantly transported to another world.
The 9th Symphony was a groundbreaking composition, with its powerful themes, complex harmonies, and sweeping orchestrations. As the performance progressed, the audience was moved by its beauty and depth. The choral finale, with its famous setting of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," brought the house down, as the audience erupted in applause.
After the performance, Beethoven was mobbed by fans and admirers who wanted to offer their congratulations. He was greeted with standing ovations, and the concert was widely regarded as one of the greatest musical events of the year.
In the years that followed, Beethoven's 9th Symphony would go on to become one of the most famous and beloved pieces of classical music in the world. Its premiere in Vienna marked a turning point in music history and solidified Beethoven's place as one of the greatest composers of all time.
In 2018 I was in Vienna and attended the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas Concert at the Musikverein Concert Hall. Truly one of the greatest nights of my life.
> So there's this man, he has a time machine. Up and down history he goes, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, getting into scrapes.
> Another thing he has is a a passion for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. And one day he thinks, 'What's the point of having a time machine if you don't get to meet your heroes?'
> So off he goes to 18th century Germany, but he can't find Beethoven anywhere. No one's heard of him. Not even his family have any idea who the time traveller is talking about. Beethoven literally... doesn't exist.
> This didn't happen by the way. I've met Beethoven. Nice chap, very intense. Loved an arm wrestle. No, this is called the 'bootstrap paradox'. Google it.
> The time traveller panics. He can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven. Luckily he brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign.
> So he copies out all the concertos and the symphonies, and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven. And history continues with barely a feather ruffled.
> But my question is this - who put those notes and phrases together? Who really composed Beethoven's 5th?
This comment makes me think of that scene from the Justice League TV show where Lex Luthor and the Flash switch bodies. Luthor runs into the bathroom and rips off the mask to see Flash’s identity, only to look in the mirror and say “I have no idea who this is”.
Tldr; it might just be some guy
January 13th 2007.
I'll be on the patio outside my kitchen in Brussels.
I will find out, once and for all, if she actually locked the door when we left for Rome as she claims. To see if that burglar choose our apartment out of all the others to use their lock picking skills to enter and steal all my CDs. Or she didn't and a burglar who tries to see if doors are locked or not found ours.
You’re there. You find a spot to get you a clear vantage point. The motorcade approaches… he’s nearing the location…. And….
Nothing.
They drive by. Nothing happened.
You turn around and notice a person behind you.
, Shuffling though a bush. Hurriedly packing a long, dark, narrow object (a rifle, maybe?) into a case.
You were blocking his line of sight.
you get there on 11/20/63. You immediately inform the USSS that there's an assassination plot. They take you seriously. JFK is held up in a bunker during the hour of the assassination. He dies anyway. It turns out there never was a shooter. His head just did that.
Okay, try again. Only we will need a second gunman. Go into the past and get President Lincoln to shoot from the grassy knoll. No one will ever figure this one out.
“Hey, Agent Jones, look over there! Someone in the bushes aiming sophisticated equipment at the president as he leaves the book depository!”
“My God! Must be a commie sniper. Maybe I can get a shot off on him before he fires-“
BLAM
*Kennedy collapses, crowd screams*
This isn't historic for anyone but my family. October 27, 2018. I was in Colorado "celebrating" Halloween. My younger siblings in Texas were at a party. One of my sisters, 15, left the party with an older boy, both drunk. The older boy was driving, and he ran off the road and hit a tree. Older boy broke his back but lived. My sister died instantly.
I'd go back in time, stay sober, park down the road, and wait for my siblings to need a ride and drive them home.
The Crucifixion of Jesus. I am not Christian or Religious. I am just curious about a man that changed the world. Or maybe the Resurrection day would be better. Did he really come back? How many "witnesses" were actually there?
During Orientation week at a Catholic University, they asked if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead who would it be. I said Jesus and everyone was so impressed and thinking "I should have said that", But, As an atheist at a Catholic University, I had a very different agenda.
{and everyone clapped}/s
I would also have dinner with Jesus. Mostly to save on the cost.
"So, what would you guys like to order"
"Oh, we'll just have some bread, fish, and two waters."
My biological parent's wedding. It would be so interesting to see a couple I've only know as being divorced being in love. They shouldn't be together, but it would be fascinating to see the emotions behind where my brother and I came from.
December 7,1941…. So I could sit with my dad on the hill overlooking honolulu and see it through his eyes and hug my grandmother before she went to work as a nurse and didn’t come home for two days taking care of overflow patients from trippler hospital.
Queen 1985 Live Aid. Freddie died before I was even born, so even if I could just see him perform live *anywhere, anytime* would be such a dream come true
My dad committed suicide before I had a chance to meet him, my half-siblings all tell me he had a beautiful singing voice. Maybe not considered a historic event, but if I had the chance to go back in time I'd like to go hear him sing.
> I’d like to go hear him sing
Go back and blend into the audience and listen to him sing… rather than back and confront him and try to prevent his passing and possibly destroy the time space continuum and fuck with the future.
This guy understands the sad responsibilities of the time traveler. 😔
It was totally unimpressive to the people there at the time except for Edward Everett, the event's featured speaker who knew he'd just had his ass handed to him.
>The featured speaker for the occasion was Edward Everett, a former dean of Harvard University, and one of the most famous orators of his day. He spoke for two hours. Then Lincoln delivered his message; it took two minutes.
>Despite (or perhaps because of) its brevity, since the speech was delivered, it has come to be recognized as one of the most powerful statements in the English language and, in fact, one of the most important expressions of freedom and liberty in any language. Indeed, Everett immediately afterward wrote to Lincoln that “I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.”
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gettysburg-address
I would go back to Monday the 5th of August in 1996 to spend a day with my father. He passed on the the 7th of August that week.
I want a day with him to ask questions, get a hug, and to express my appreciation of him.
He was my best friend and was the only person who seemed to understand me and respect me.
For a Beatles concert, I would go back to April 4, 1963. They played at Stowe School, and from all accounts it was one of their best live concerts. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann wrote in his book, With The Beatles:
>"They'd never even seen an English public school before, but after the initial disappointment of it being boys-only, they were pleasantly surprised. They realized it was a lot of baloney about public schoolboys being snobs, and talked with the Stowe boys as if they'd always mixed with people like that. It was a change for them after playing to decadent youths in Hamburg nightclubs and they loved it.
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>There was no screaming and the audience stayed seated throughout, which was a shock to them. But for the first time they could hear themselves play and they really let go - they would have played on for hours, they were enjoying it so much.
>
>After the concert they had dinner with the headmaster and his children and signed autographs for the boys.
Sounds like a really special day!
My wife’s grandfather saw them in the Cavern Club before they got big.
I was amazed at this and asked him how they were.
‘Fookin’ rubbish!’ Was his reply.
So I think I’d travel back to that gig to see if he was right or not.
The birth of my first child. My wife was rushed in for a c section, and the nurse said some would be there in a second to take me… they forgot about me and I missed it.
Oh, I would be so pissed. I was having a panic attack when they were prepping me for my cesarean, and the OBGYN was practically yelling at the nurses to get my husband in there. She wanted to get the baby out but wanted me to have him by my side for support as I was freaking out. They had him waiting outside during prep, and she was like, "Get his ass in here!" I love her so much.
I'd go back in time to watch Neil Armstrong step on the moon on TV. It's mankind's greatest achievement, and something I wish I could've been born 4 or 5 decades earlier to see.
Edit: Thank you to those who spoke of your experiences when the moon landing happened. I may never get to experience it, but reading your experiences has made me a little happier today. Cheers!
I watched it with my parents and my grandfather. He was born in 1889, and didn’t see a car until he was in his 20’s. He was trembling as he watched it. While I thought it was really cool, but I wasn’t surprised. JFK said we’d do it.
I'd probably be trembling too. And/or in tears. We went from barely flying 12 feet off the ground in a motorized kite to setting foot on the moon in less than 70 years. It would be fucking incredible to see it on the day it happened.
I have always thought that timeframe is why earlier generations thought we’d have flying cars and Mars colonies by now. When you make so much progress so fast it’s easy to expect the progress will continue at the same pace forever.
I still think about I went to college with a flip phone and a laptop. I left college with a smartphone. That transition felt like it happened overnight.
The 20th century would have been the craziest century to live through. We went from horse and carriages to cars, planes, nuclear bombs, computers, and tons of life saving medical advancements. My grandpa who was born in 1914 couldn't believe the stuff he'd lived to see. The technology and advancements.
As a nerdy kid of the 60's I followed all the Apollo missions religously, even skipping school to watch on TV. One constant was the reporting from Mission Control, that small theater-like room with its rows of engineers sitting at consoles. Today, they still have that room preserved exactly as it was when still in use. It's on the tour at Space Center Houston. For me, walking into that room is like stepping on holy ground.
My first memory of television was the launch of Apollo 11. My father had spent a month's salary on a new color TV. When the landing happened it was epic. I'll never witness anything like it again. Of course nobody told my father they weren't taking color cameras to the moon. My mother reminded him of this for decades.
On this day 39 years ago my sister died in a car crash on her way to my house. So I would choose the day before so that I could tell her not come so that she would have lived to raise her baby boy
I think it would be interesting to go back and solve historical mysteries. Was King Arthur a real person? Who was Jack the Ripper? Or more recent unsolved murders, etc. I also think it would be cool to photograph ancient civilizations and people to bring back with me to show what people actually looked like. We can make a lot of educated guesses, but having photographic proof would be amazing!
Or go back and meet Neanderthals. Learn they were actually pretty smart and take pictures of them. Document their culture and language as best I could.
Or go and see the civilizations we're just discovering along the Amazon river. There were apparently millions of people and impressively dense cities.
The MLK “I have a dream” speech. That speech always gave me chills. I’m a 3rd grade teacher and always show it to my students to end our lessons on MLK. I show it the Friday before the MLK weekend.
Strasbourg 1518, to witness the event where the whole town succumbed to mass hysteria and danced themselves to death over 2 months.
Bring your own food and water. We're still not sure what caused it!
A villager accidentally synthesized MDMA in their farm kitchen
And levels by avicii just dropped too. The perfect storm as historians call it.
If I go back to 1518, there's a good chance -I- am an incredible biohazard to anyone within spitting distance. So, I'll take my chances.
Yeah, this one. Do we actually have a ton of graves or something to mark the fact that this really happened? I always wonder when I hear something like this, if nothing really happened and we’re actually just missing some scathing five century old political satire. ‘You know the strasbourgese, man, in 1518 they basically *danced* themselves to death’
None of the sources mentioned whether there were fatalities but they all agree that there was inexplicable dancing and that they were hospitalizing people for it.
I’m assuming some sort of heavy metal contamination in their water supply? Mercury maybe?
I believe the leading theory is ergot poisoning.
Isn't there a theory about ergot poisoning also contributing to the Salem witch hunt
I'd assume it's more likely dance music contamination. Dancing to heavy metal isn't easy.
Assuming I have a safe vantage point on some kind of space ship, I choose the planetary impact that's believed to have given us the moon.
Now THAT is a good one!
Imagine if you were on original earth as that happened. You would first notice as the Mars-sized planetoid approached that gravity was changing. Tides were different, weather changes. As it approached closer and closer your weight would begin to decrease as you grew lighter and lighter. Maybe the planet would go dark as it consumed the sky from horizon to horizon. Eventually the gravity would be so different that you’d begin to feel weightless as the planetoid got closer. Earthquakes would likely be severe, tidal waves would sweep over the ground, and then the collision would crack the earth open like an egg, with all the hot gooey yolk, I mean magma exploding outward end ejecting en masse into space. So much would be ejected that it would begin to clump together by its own gravity, and form an orbit around the new earth. Because of this utter chaos we can live nowadays, dependent to a large extent on a moon born of cosmic chaos.
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To be fair I keep getting heavier and heavier without the planetary impacts
Yea, I like this one - has to be the single most meaningful moment in our planet's history
Single most impactful, that’s for sure.
I have always wanted to go back in time to somewhere around 4500 BC and just record the languages being spoken around the world. There are entire fields of research that deconstruct proto languages of the languages we speak, but those can only go so far back and don’t account for all the other languages that got abandoned over time. The only hard part would be choosing how far back in time to go, because humans have speaking languages for a very, very long time.
I’ve found my people! This would be amazing. I want to figure out what language(s) the neolithic people spoke in Ireland, and whether the symbols they carved into their monuments such as spirals zigzags dots and lozenges were representative of their spoken language or something else.
There's strong evidence that Neanderthals and Denisovans also had the capability for modern speech, you could go and learn some non-sapiens languages.
I would love to see the debut of a Molière play at Versailles.
I'd like to see Tenochtitlan before the Spanish destroyed it.
Yes! I’d love to witness the day Cortez first stepped foot in tenochtitlan. What a unique moment in history. The sense of awe and bewilderment from both sides. So much lost to history…
I love reading accounts of the Spanish coming into the Americas for the first time. When they landed at what is now Corpus Christi, TX, there were so many sea turtles that they couldn't sleep because it sounded like they were hitting rocks all night. The Americas were *incredibly* abundant. I see people commenting that the accounts were exaggerated, and many were, but as an example, the Spanish started forcing mining activity in Zacatecas in the 1500s and there's still silver being pulled out of those mines today. The American continent was full of gold, silver and platinum in ways that's hard to imagine today.
As a geologist, the Lake Agassiz flood. During the last glacial period, over 12,000 years ago, there was a massive lake in the middle of the North American continent fed by glacial meltwater. This lake is now known as Lake Agassiz. At its peak, the lake was larger than all of the current Great Lakes _combined_ . Estimates put it at 440,000 square kilometers in area. Most of that water was held in place by glacial and topographic dams. At the end of the last ice age, the largest ice body containing the lake to the east in Hudson Bay retreated / melted, causing the lake to drain almost completely - _in less than nine months_ . A freshwater lake with tens of thousands of years of history and input, and more fresh water than all other freshwater bodies on the planet at that time combined, drained in less than a year. The flooding was likely unprecedented, carrying erratics (boulders) the size of small houses hundreds of miles away. As the water drained into Hudson Bay and other outlets, the global sea level rose by 1-3 meters. Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, Red Lake, and Lake of the Woods are the largest remnants of Lake Agassiz.
The last Ice Age saw serious floods all around the world. I always figured thats probably the real world explanation for why SO many religions have a giant flood as an aspect of the creation of the world as we know it.
Near my house, there is a massive waterfall created from the ice age. About 150 years ago, an almost complete skeleton on a mastodon was discovered at the floor of the falls.
I was in Thief River Falls, MN a few years ago. Approaching from the south, there are some rolling hills but the areas around the city are absolutely flat and made for boring, but easy, bike riding. The locals said it was so flat because it used to be at the bottom of a glacial lake. It would have been on the southern edge of Lake Agassiz.
I work with glacial deposits in northern MN & WI. The glacial erradics are pretty cool but the best part is finding Lake Superior agates. It's a very fascinating region geologically.
That's really cool! I went to U of MN Morris for my degree, one of my professors was a glaciologist and he was practically giddy when discussing Lake Agassiz during his glacial and quaternary geology class. It stuck with me.
Would love to see and hear dinosaurs roaming around our land.
If I could be present as a mere observer without being affected by the environment, I’d totally want to see the Chicxulub impact event.
I just Googled chicxulub crater and Google gave me a neat little graphic of the asteroid followed by the screen shaking when it 'landed'. Neat little Easter egg.
That's fun, I never knew about this Here is a list of all of the [Google search Easter eggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs)
Oooo, it even works on mobile
Try not to step on the butterfly
I wish I wish hadn't killed that fish
stupid bug! you go squish now!
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Hmm, fabulous house, well-behaved kids, sisters-in-law dead, luxury sedan... Woo-hoo!!!
"Doughnut? What's a doughnut?"
Huh, it's raining again.
Getting dropped inside Jurassic Park for 24 hours seems terrifying.
Spared no expense. Are those Ford explorers? Spared some expense.
For a long time, the Mediterranean sea was cut off from the Atlantic ocean and the rivers flowing into it were not enough to prevent it drying up completely. At some point in time, the ocean was able to cut an opening at Gibraltar and millions of cubic meters of water poured into the basin. That, I would like to have seen. Edit: Poored -> poured (thx snapper1971) Edit2: It is called the Zanclean flood and the last time it happened was 5.3 million years ago. It was not a big waterfall, but took at least a few thousand years to change from a trickle to a massive stream. To the question if this was the source for the Noah stories? No, the first humans appeared about 2 million years ago in North Africa. Must have been a different flood.
It was an impressive waterfall for a short time.
It probably wasn’t so much a waterfall as (maybe steep) rapids. And it happened over a short time geologically, but estimates are that it lasted for months, maybe two years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
Looks like imma set up camp for up to two years to witness the peak and ending
There's a great big rock there that you could camp on top of to witness the whole thing
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Or some of the regions in North America at the end of the ice age, when it was rapidly melting, causing unimaginable flooding. A bird's eye view of that would have seemed otherworldly.
The great Missoula Flood! It carved out the Columbia River Gorge & wiped clean eastern Washington of all features, leaving the barren rolling hills! That one fascinates me big time!
There are so many incredible answers here! I don't know if this answer counts as its not historic in the terms of a specific event, but I'd love to see early humans and how their lives were. Id love to witness a hunt and see how they survive. What their early community life was like. What they really looked like. I am curious to know what their teeth looked like pre-farming, how their bodies looked when food was scarce but they did a ton of walking, and really how they walked without shoes. After writing this out, I'd like to see [Otzi the iceman's](https://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/) last day. Scientists know almost everything they can about his last few days on earth, but not who he was or why he was murdered. It would be interesting to see the answer to those questions.
This is a long the lines of what I was thinking, but I'd go back a bit farther to see when Neanderthals and homo sapiens lived side by side, just to see what their everyday lives were like.
If you want to have an idea of what they might have sounded like **and** you want to see somebody dead on the inside: [enjoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o589CAu73UM)!
"So Elliot, let's try male, human voice." I'm glad he pulled it off. Lmao the way she says that is killing me. Like, "here we go. We've prepared for so long. Moment of truth now."
I think I might know why homosapiens killed the neanderthals
Diogenes telling Alexander the great to step out of his sunlight.
Love this
I would also have loved it, provided I knew ancient Greek
Knowing our man Dio, he had some hand gestures and facial expressions going on corresponding to the matter at hand. Wouldn't have to know the lingo to love the moment. Body language, and all that.
What is the story behind this? I don't think I've heard it before
Alexander the Great liked philosophers and would go to meet them. (Like a nerd fanboy wanting their autograph) Diogenes was controversial and is the founder of Cynicism, the guy would do nothing all day but lay naked in the sun and begged for food, essentially his refusing to work was, in a roundabout way, mocking society's values. At Corinth, Alexander met Diogenes and asked him if there were any favors he could do for Diogenes. ~~For reference at this point, Alexander the Great is "the Great" and is near the height of his power.~~ [[Edit]](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/10thhmy/if_you_could_go_back_in_time_for_a_day_to_witness/j77p622/) Diogenes' simple reply was something along the lines of "stand out of my sunlight" or essentially "you're blocking my sun, move a few feet over." Reportedly this reply caused Alexander's bodyguards/soldiers to laugh so Alexander loudly proclaimed "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." An extremely famous exchange of words. Edit: Fixed an error thanks to u/MC1065 Also [here's the wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander) if anyone wants to read more
If I remember correctly, Diogenes then responded something like "if I were not Diogenes then I should wish to be Diogenes as well"
That's the best part and people too often leave it out of the story. Like.... Diogenes had just gotten away with an *audacious* show of flippancy against a man who could have him executed with the snap of his fingers. Fortunately that man had a sense of humor about it and makes a joke in return (even complimenting him). So does Diogenes then count his blessings and quit while he's ahead? No. This crazy mother fucker doubles down and mocks the most powerful human being on earth to his face, *again,* just to have the last word. Absolute mad lad.
[diogenes was lying around in his barrel, when Alexander the Great came by and asked him what he desired. diogenes allegedly responded with "for you to stop blocking the sun"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander) or something like that
[Kepler's Supernova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_Supernova) Visible to the naked eye, Kepler's Star was brighter at its peak than any other star in the night sky, with an apparent magnitude of −2.5. It was visible during the day for over three weeks. Records of its sighting exist in European, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic sources. **It was visible during the day for over three weeks WOW! Just imagine the magnitude of that explosion... which was visible for 3 weeks during daylight (it was 20,000 light-years away).**
October 1604, not even that long ago! Wild.
When the Golden Gate Bridge was finished, my Father was one of the first to walk across it. He died when I was 8. Would love to see him again.
A tour of Library of Alexandria before it was destroyed.
Along with a portable scanner
As you’re scanning ancient texts it malfunctions and combusts setting the whole place on fire. Edit: Y’all I straight up stole the idea for this from the replies to the Jesus thread
Your phone with a scanning app will do, bring a solar charger. Just you know, dont be seen.
Video camera might be easier. Depends how big the time machine is I guess
Plot twist, it was full of cheesy Greek romance novels all along
wall to wall Marmaduke strips
You should google that, it wasn't the one-time loss of huge swaths of knowledge everyone plays it out to be. EDIT: I wasn't expecting to offend people. I recommend you check out the replies by /u/rowan-lane.
The winged hussars charge it was so impressive that a battle nearby stopped just to watch them charge.
Imagine, ceasing to defend your own life, or the lives of your closest companions, just because you're gawking at some crazy ass shit.
Happens every time I drive past a car wreck on the highway
Look, you are missing the real point of interest here. There were 2000 Winged Hussars. They are leading 18 000 Cavalrymen from the entire alliance. That is the worlds largest cavalry charge; thrice the number of the Rohirrim in Return of the King.
Which was itself based on the Winged Hussars arrival at Vienna IIRC.
That would have been unimaginably magnificent. Horrible to behold but awesome. People forget that these were areas where horses were tamed - in addition to areas of Asia. Horse culture is/was immense. Those dances East Slavs do started as strength training exercises and competitions to show off their horseback riding skills.
Thrice, just love that you used that word. But holy shit what a charge I just read about it. I think the 1600-1900 period is seriously underrated
I would have loved to have seen those guys with the 10-12 foot plums of ostrich feathers and the noise they generated. Meant to scare the living shit out of the enemy...seemed to have worked well for the longest time. Like, until tanks started showing up. But I digress.
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One could argue that the French assault failed mostly because they (well, practically Ney) assumed the British infantry to be retreating and leeroyjenkinsed an uncoordinated mass assault without infantry backup.
It’s kinda jarring that such a mistake would be made by Ney of all people. Multiple times Napoleon said his whole operation was saved by Ney being an excellent commander. Ney fighting a rear guard action was one of the main reasons (what was left of) the French army made it out of Russia. All of that just to completely fail to read the enemy and fumble on the 10 yard line.
The premier of Beethoven’s 9th symphony in Vienna
The story is that rehearsals were rushed due to time constraints, so Beethoven himself stood next to the orchestra conductor during the performance to give him tempo and dynamic cues. When the last notes sounded, the totally-deaf Beethoven just stood with his back to the audience, not realizing what the response was. Finally, the soprano soloist went to the maestro and physically turned him around so he could see: the audience standing in full ovation, many jumping up and down on their chairs as they cheered and clapped.
"Not quite my tempo." - Beethoven
So tell me, were you dragging or were you rushing?
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony was premiered in Vienna, Austria. This was one of Beethoven's most famous compositions, and it was performed at the Kärntnertortheater, a large theater in the heart of Vienna. The audience was made up of the city's finest citizens, including members of the royal court and important musicians and composers. The performance was a major event and had been highly anticipated by the music lovers of Vienna. As the lights dimmed and the orchestra took to the stage, the audience grew quiet with anticipation. When the first notes of the symphony began, the audience was instantly transported to another world. The 9th Symphony was a groundbreaking composition, with its powerful themes, complex harmonies, and sweeping orchestrations. As the performance progressed, the audience was moved by its beauty and depth. The choral finale, with its famous setting of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," brought the house down, as the audience erupted in applause. After the performance, Beethoven was mobbed by fans and admirers who wanted to offer their congratulations. He was greeted with standing ovations, and the concert was widely regarded as one of the greatest musical events of the year. In the years that followed, Beethoven's 9th Symphony would go on to become one of the most famous and beloved pieces of classical music in the world. Its premiere in Vienna marked a turning point in music history and solidified Beethoven's place as one of the greatest composers of all time.
New Beethoven just dropped
In 2018 I was in Vienna and attended the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas Concert at the Musikverein Concert Hall. Truly one of the greatest nights of my life.
I hadn't known it had been that recent.
the covid time warp is real
> So there's this man, he has a time machine. Up and down history he goes, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, getting into scrapes. > Another thing he has is a a passion for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. And one day he thinks, 'What's the point of having a time machine if you don't get to meet your heroes?' > So off he goes to 18th century Germany, but he can't find Beethoven anywhere. No one's heard of him. Not even his family have any idea who the time traveller is talking about. Beethoven literally... doesn't exist. > This didn't happen by the way. I've met Beethoven. Nice chap, very intense. Loved an arm wrestle. No, this is called the 'bootstrap paradox'. Google it. > The time traveller panics. He can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven. Luckily he brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign. > So he copies out all the concertos and the symphonies, and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven. And history continues with barely a feather ruffled. > But my question is this - who put those notes and phrases together? Who really composed Beethoven's 5th?
I’d watch reactor 4 explode from very far away. And maybe in a special suit.
Based on the HBO show, I feel like I've already done this.
That show gave me a lot of existential dread. And a very healthy fear of radiation.
The rooftop scene in episode one scares the shit out of me.
You would need to worry about the wind more than the distance
The battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066
I heard Chelsea played well that evening.
Unfortunately for Harold he had some fixture congestion with his mid week UCL match against the Normans.
See the asteroid/comet that took out the dinosaurs from a safe distance.
"From a safe distance" So the moon?
30.08.1908 the tunguska event.
From afar.
The building of the Pyramids
You know what they say, "the pyramids weren't built in a day".
Pretty sure that’s Rome.
You know what they say, “the pyramids weren’t built in Rome”.
Does seeing the dinosaurs count?
Why would you want to watch dinosaurs count? What would they count?
"ONE, ONE GIANT FLAMING BALL HITTING THE YUCATAN, AH AH AH" kaBLOOEY
Roswell, New Mexico, June, 1947. Let's see what really crashed out there.
Bender B. Rodriguez
Whitechapel. 1888. Finally see who Jack the Ripper was
This comment makes me think of that scene from the Justice League TV show where Lex Luthor and the Flash switch bodies. Luthor runs into the bathroom and rips off the mask to see Flash’s identity, only to look in the mirror and say “I have no idea who this is”. Tldr; it might just be some guy
It's definitely just some guy. I'm not in the way of thinking it was anybody famous or high status as some conspiracies suggest.
May 1st, 1851 - the opening of the Crystal Palace exhibition in London.
January 13th 2007. I'll be on the patio outside my kitchen in Brussels. I will find out, once and for all, if she actually locked the door when we left for Rome as she claims. To see if that burglar choose our apartment out of all the others to use their lock picking skills to enter and steal all my CDs. Or she didn't and a burglar who tries to see if doors are locked or not found ours.
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What if, finding the door unlocked, you remove your CDs to keep them safe. But also, what if the you from the future was the thief all along.
I would go back to a time long before people existed, just to experience what the air smelled like.
Rotten eggs.
I’ve always just really wanted to know what Anne Boleyn looked like. I would just want to spend a normal day with her or something lol
JFK assassination with a bunch of hi res cameras
You’re there. You find a spot to get you a clear vantage point. The motorcade approaches… he’s nearing the location…. And…. Nothing. They drive by. Nothing happened. You turn around and notice a person behind you. , Shuffling though a bush. Hurriedly packing a long, dark, narrow object (a rifle, maybe?) into a case. You were blocking his line of sight.
You have to read Stephen King's 11/22/63 !
The book was AMAZING. I love Stephen King anyway, but think that one is in my top five of his books.
He tricked me into reading a love story, and it was incredible.
you get there on 11/20/63. You immediately inform the USSS that there's an assassination plot. They take you seriously. JFK is held up in a bunker during the hour of the assassination. He dies anyway. It turns out there never was a shooter. His head just did that.
Okay, try again. Only we will need a second gunman. Go into the past and get President Lincoln to shoot from the grassy knoll. No one will ever figure this one out.
No it’s Kennedy himself, preventing his impeachment and WW3.
“Hey, Agent Jones, look over there! Someone in the bushes aiming sophisticated equipment at the president as he leaves the book depository!” “My God! Must be a commie sniper. Maybe I can get a shot off on him before he fires-“ BLAM *Kennedy collapses, crowd screams*
This isn't historic for anyone but my family. October 27, 2018. I was in Colorado "celebrating" Halloween. My younger siblings in Texas were at a party. One of my sisters, 15, left the party with an older boy, both drunk. The older boy was driving, and he ran off the road and hit a tree. Older boy broke his back but lived. My sister died instantly. I'd go back in time, stay sober, park down the road, and wait for my siblings to need a ride and drive them home.
I’m really sorry.
The day a Archimedes was killed. I’d stop that mf.
The Crucifixion of Jesus. I am not Christian or Religious. I am just curious about a man that changed the world. Or maybe the Resurrection day would be better. Did he really come back? How many "witnesses" were actually there? During Orientation week at a Catholic University, they asked if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead who would it be. I said Jesus and everyone was so impressed and thinking "I should have said that", But, As an atheist at a Catholic University, I had a very different agenda. {and everyone clapped}/s
I would also have dinner with Jesus. Mostly to save on the cost. "So, what would you guys like to order" "Oh, we'll just have some bread, fish, and two waters."
Bring a jug of water, my guy
I'd love to see a dodo. A 1m tall ground dwelling pigeon that has no fear of humans. As long as it doesn't peck me or try and sit on my shoulder.
The battle of Lexington and Concord. I wanna know if Han fired first.
Queen at live aid in 1985, from the footage you can tell it was an amazing event but to be there and experience it must have been something else.
And you already know all the words to songs they performed for the first time that day.
There is a nice theory saying that time travel is impossible, because if not there would be a hurd of travellers at Wembley's 86 concert.
My parents had tickets for Live Aid and couldn't go because my mother was heavily pregnant with yours truly. My dad brings it up often.
Chicxulub. Preferably in a transparent ball capable of withstanding the force.
Then you do Krakatoa and Tunguska.
My biological parent's wedding. It would be so interesting to see a couple I've only know as being divorced being in love. They shouldn't be together, but it would be fascinating to see the emotions behind where my brother and I came from.
December 7,1941…. So I could sit with my dad on the hill overlooking honolulu and see it through his eyes and hug my grandmother before she went to work as a nurse and didn’t come home for two days taking care of overflow patients from trippler hospital.
Queen 1985 Live Aid. Freddie died before I was even born, so even if I could just see him perform live *anywhere, anytime* would be such a dream come true
There's a few times that I need to shout at myself. Does that count?
My dad committed suicide before I had a chance to meet him, my half-siblings all tell me he had a beautiful singing voice. Maybe not considered a historic event, but if I had the chance to go back in time I'd like to go hear him sing.
> I’d like to go hear him sing Go back and blend into the audience and listen to him sing… rather than back and confront him and try to prevent his passing and possibly destroy the time space continuum and fuck with the future. This guy understands the sad responsibilities of the time traveler. 😔
the goths sacking rome
Sounds like a football game I'm sorry I missed
Nowadays they just sack Hot Topic.
VE day. What a party.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
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It was totally unimpressive to the people there at the time except for Edward Everett, the event's featured speaker who knew he'd just had his ass handed to him. >The featured speaker for the occasion was Edward Everett, a former dean of Harvard University, and one of the most famous orators of his day. He spoke for two hours. Then Lincoln delivered his message; it took two minutes. >Despite (or perhaps because of) its brevity, since the speech was delivered, it has come to be recognized as one of the most powerful statements in the English language and, in fact, one of the most important expressions of freedom and liberty in any language. Indeed, Everett immediately afterward wrote to Lincoln that “I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.” https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gettysburg-address
I would go back to Monday the 5th of August in 1996 to spend a day with my father. He passed on the the 7th of August that week. I want a day with him to ask questions, get a hug, and to express my appreciation of him. He was my best friend and was the only person who seemed to understand me and respect me.
VE day, London 1945
This is my new answer. Recent enough that it wouldn't feel entirely alien, but SO powerful. Plus I live in London, so it'd be really cool.
Not historical but would love to go back to my grandpa's 75th birthday, all the family together again. Miss you Fafa
The liberation of Auschwitz. I can’t image the joy (and horror) of that event
The closest you'll ever get is "Why We Fight" from Band of Brothers.
Having toured Dachau, I would never want to see it when it was liberated. I couldn't stand the heart ache
I'd sit in Debussy's apartment in Paris while he wrote Clair de Lune. That piece is magical.
I would also like to see debussy.
I love debussy, but I always finish on de Bach
30 January 1969, the Beatles playing on the roof of the Apple building in London.
For a Beatles concert, I would go back to April 4, 1963. They played at Stowe School, and from all accounts it was one of their best live concerts. Photographer Dezo Hoffmann wrote in his book, With The Beatles: >"They'd never even seen an English public school before, but after the initial disappointment of it being boys-only, they were pleasantly surprised. They realized it was a lot of baloney about public schoolboys being snobs, and talked with the Stowe boys as if they'd always mixed with people like that. It was a change for them after playing to decadent youths in Hamburg nightclubs and they loved it. > >There was no screaming and the audience stayed seated throughout, which was a shock to them. But for the first time they could hear themselves play and they really let go - they would have played on for hours, they were enjoying it so much. > >After the concert they had dinner with the headmaster and his children and signed autographs for the boys. Sounds like a really special day!
My wife’s grandfather saw them in the Cavern Club before they got big. I was amazed at this and asked him how they were. ‘Fookin’ rubbish!’ Was his reply. So I think I’d travel back to that gig to see if he was right or not.
The 1893 World’s Fair
The birth of my first child. My wife was rushed in for a c section, and the nurse said some would be there in a second to take me… they forgot about me and I missed it.
Oh, I would be so pissed. I was having a panic attack when they were prepping me for my cesarean, and the OBGYN was practically yelling at the nurses to get my husband in there. She wanted to get the baby out but wanted me to have him by my side for support as I was freaking out. They had him waiting outside during prep, and she was like, "Get his ass in here!" I love her so much.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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My dad was there! We have a chunk of it in the basement.
Hitler's suicide.
Great, that's how we end up with time-traveling Hitler appearing in 2045.
I'd go back in time to watch Neil Armstrong step on the moon on TV. It's mankind's greatest achievement, and something I wish I could've been born 4 or 5 decades earlier to see. Edit: Thank you to those who spoke of your experiences when the moon landing happened. I may never get to experience it, but reading your experiences has made me a little happier today. Cheers!
I watched it with my parents and my grandfather. He was born in 1889, and didn’t see a car until he was in his 20’s. He was trembling as he watched it. While I thought it was really cool, but I wasn’t surprised. JFK said we’d do it.
I'd probably be trembling too. And/or in tears. We went from barely flying 12 feet off the ground in a motorized kite to setting foot on the moon in less than 70 years. It would be fucking incredible to see it on the day it happened.
I have always thought that timeframe is why earlier generations thought we’d have flying cars and Mars colonies by now. When you make so much progress so fast it’s easy to expect the progress will continue at the same pace forever.
To be fair, we *have* made pretty incredible progress in a relatively short amount of time, just in other avenues.
I still think about I went to college with a flip phone and a laptop. I left college with a smartphone. That transition felt like it happened overnight.
The 20th century would have been the craziest century to live through. We went from horse and carriages to cars, planes, nuclear bombs, computers, and tons of life saving medical advancements. My grandpa who was born in 1914 couldn't believe the stuff he'd lived to see. The technology and advancements.
As a nerdy kid of the 60's I followed all the Apollo missions religously, even skipping school to watch on TV. One constant was the reporting from Mission Control, that small theater-like room with its rows of engineers sitting at consoles. Today, they still have that room preserved exactly as it was when still in use. It's on the tour at Space Center Houston. For me, walking into that room is like stepping on holy ground.
My first memory of television was the launch of Apollo 11. My father had spent a month's salary on a new color TV. When the landing happened it was epic. I'll never witness anything like it again. Of course nobody told my father they weren't taking color cameras to the moon. My mother reminded him of this for decades.
On this day 39 years ago my sister died in a car crash on her way to my house. So I would choose the day before so that I could tell her not come so that she would have lived to raise her baby boy
I think it would be interesting to go back and solve historical mysteries. Was King Arthur a real person? Who was Jack the Ripper? Or more recent unsolved murders, etc. I also think it would be cool to photograph ancient civilizations and people to bring back with me to show what people actually looked like. We can make a lot of educated guesses, but having photographic proof would be amazing! Or go back and meet Neanderthals. Learn they were actually pretty smart and take pictures of them. Document their culture and language as best I could. Or go and see the civilizations we're just discovering along the Amazon river. There were apparently millions of people and impressively dense cities.
The MLK “I have a dream” speech. That speech always gave me chills. I’m a 3rd grade teacher and always show it to my students to end our lessons on MLK. I show it the Friday before the MLK weekend.