Top 20 Moments That Made The World Stand Still
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2022
- These watershed historical moments shaped the world we live in today. For this list, we’ll be looking at historical events that forced people to stop and bear witness as they transpired. Our countdown includes the 2021 United States Capitol Attack, 9/11, Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Chernobyl Disaster, Apollo 11 Moon Landing, and more! Do you remember exactly where you were when you heard about any of these? Tell us in the comments.
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Do you remember exactly where you were when you heard about any of these? Tell us in the comments.
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Well during the 9/11 attack in I was 4 years old and at school and during the Capitol attack of last year I was at home.
It’s so wrong that your are trying to number the invasion of Ukraine for a few $ this is horrendous and should be ashamed! I agree with the past but too try to gain a following through the suffering of people now is hideous you should be ashamed and boycotted!
Watchmojo, Trump said for people to "march peacefully and let your voices be heard." provide the full context instead of adding to the lies of the partisan media.
I actually missed the jan 6th attack. I saw the protests, rolled my eyes and went back to playing playstation vr. By the time I came out of vr it was over.
The space shuttle explosion I remember well. I was in 7th grade, watching it live in class. My science teacher had applied to be on the shuttle so when it exploded he walked out into the hallway and burst into tears.
People always forget to mention the Apollo 11 third crew member, Michael Collins! The loneliest man in history. While Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon, he circled them all alone in space for about a whole day. Never forget Michael Collins! 🚀
Collins was a hero in his own right, without him, Neil and Buzz would’ve been stuck forever
True 👍🏻
The week he died I bought his photo of the lander returning. Never forget MC!
Micheal Collins 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@pearsequinn9884 Same name, different Michael Collins. The one from Ireland famous in his own right definitely!
I was 7 years old when the Challenger tragedy went down. We were watching it at School and when it exploded, we all were in shock, and a few kids cried. The Teacher (to her credit in my opinion) didn't immediately turn it off. That's extra significant for me because it taught me how to process Death, which came in handy the very next year when my Mom died. I will never ever forget that.
I'm sorry to hear that dude.
@@thrust_vectoring_spitfire thank you. It's getting me a little emotional thinking about it now.
teacher should've said they got burned alive screaming while falling to their deaths
@@sheepboy2560 Dude why would you say that?
@@sheepboy2560 attention seeker I see
As bad as the Challenger disaster was, it could have been worse. One thing they considered was bringing Caroll Spinney aboard in a "Big Bird goes to space" story. These plans were scuttled when they discovered that the Big Bird puppet was too bulky to function properly on the shuttle. Just consider that thousands of young children could have been watching live as Big Bird died.
🙊🙈
Holy shit.
jesus
Today I learned…
At least Big Bird managed to live a full and happy life, right? At least in a way that woulda mortified all the children.
My husband’s grandfather was a coach at the ‘72 Olympics and said that the hostage crisis was one of the worst things he’d ever seen and he’d escaped the Soviet occupation of Hungary in 1956
this feels like an old school watch mojo video. love it
That’s because they’re redoing an old video lol
@@sterlingross919 duh
I’m surprised that the Holocaust was not even mentioned.
It does. Because they are going back to being biased.
3 events that deserves at least honourable mentions on this list are; the 2004 boxing day tsunami, the Bali bombings and the Fukashima meltdown/ Japanese tsunami.
I was looking for this comment. The 2004 tsunami was horrible to follow live as the death toll just kept rising.
Boxing Day tsunami was 2004 and Bali Bombings was 2002
@@kurtbush5096 I thought that was the case but for some reason it didn't seem right. So I'll adjust that now thanks for catching that mistake.
Don't forget Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. No tropical cyclone before or since displayed such horrifying images of human suffering from Mother Nature's wrath, or laid bare the absolute worst incompetence in American government at all levels.
The 2004 tsunami, they made a movie the impossible from that event correct?
I was only in my 2nd year of high school (Sophomore year) when 9/11 happened, what made it worse was my big brother who worked at the Pentagon at the time but was thankfully ten minutes late (the one and only time he was ever grateful to be late) and helped assist in rescue operations. My family and I were very scared for him since we had no way of knowing if he was alive or dead, he eventually called that afternoon and said that he was ok. Sadly, the same couldn't be said a classmate of my school who was in new york city at the time to visit family; he was apparently with his grandfather toward the top of the world trade center when the planes struck, he and his grandfathers remains were never found.
I'm so sorry about your friend and his grandfather, 9/11 is something that should never have happened...
@@YaGurlRiley agreed. Too bad it was an inside job. Amazing how those buildings fell directly in their footprint. Almost like a controlled demolition
The top of WTC was closed at that time and nobody could have gotten up there
So so sorry
@@nevermindme8922 How many more people are going to say it was an inside job?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech is still one of the most painfully beautiful, moving, tear-inducing things I've ever heard. ❤
I just turned 50 a few weeks ago and experienced quite of these events in real time. It's sometimes surreal to talk about these events in first person to those who've only read about them in history books.
As a 55 year old I 100% understand. Not on this list, but living in Southern Oklahoma during the burn up of the space shuttle Columbia I could actually see it over the Texas sky. So sad 😞
I am 41 and most of these happened during my life. I know there were other things that happened before us however, it seems like it is surreal.
I’m 22 now and never lived under the fear of Russia like now I had my heart skip a beat hearing a missing person alert ring on my phone thinking Russia went mentally ballistic and finally was dropping the nukes was this what the Cold War was like?
I’ve honestly never heard of most of these events.
@@gavinbunting7354 consider yourself lucky.
This video shows that regardless if history is either flattering or horrific. It must never be swept under and forgotten,less we forget its lessons and repeat the same mistakes.
Which we continue to do
Just like the old saying 'If you don't learn history from the past, you're doomed to repeat it.' With everything that's going on these days, I guess some people decided to try and make that saying seem irrelevant.
@@veronicaa.1416 The media cut Trump off before he could say protest peacefully. I swear, if anyone thinks they can argue, you're lying to yourselves.
I remember where I was for every single one of these moments. Man I'm old.
9/11 I remember all too well. I was working as a production director at a CBS affiliate. I watched everything unfold live. I remember after the second plane hit, I looked over at my future wife and said “America is under attack!” I then yelled for the news anchor and informed him of what was happening. A few minutes later, we went live on the air for a few minutes before throwing it back to network coverage. We never went back on the air that day, only broadcasting live CBS feed. I still remember leaving the station after my shift and noticing how eerily quiet it was outside. Not much traffic on the highway and no air traffic. 21 years and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was in 7th grade on 9/11. I remember the school principal dismissing school early that day. He cited a "bee infestation" on campus and the school had to clear out the students so insecticides could be used in mass quantities. I also remember finding out that teachers were forbidden from telling students the truth that day before dismissal, the principal going as far as willing to fire on-the-spot any teacher who mentioned anything more than "something has happened, but I can't tell you what." My own panicked parents, anti-violence Catholics, picked me up and had to explain to their 13-year-old son why evil men would collide planes with buildings to murder lots of people. I think that is the day I grew up to the world around me. It was no longer sunshine and rainbows and how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop, but actual American carnage and human hatred.
The bee infestation is definitely much less sinister and more enjoyable. I'd rather it have had been that reason! :D
I was an Infant when 9/11 happened. I was born on the 13th of August 2001, which is weeks or months before 11 September 2001.
I was in the 7th grade also and was in class also. I don't remember what happened after.. I think they sent us home. Tragedy.
I was in 1st Grade when 9/11 happened. As a child I had absolutely no idea what was happening at the time. However I do remember how My mother picked me up from my school & took me to the restaurant where she worked as a bartender at the time because that was the only place she could think of that she knew was the safest place at that time.
At that time the restaurant originally didn’t have a TV. However someone there brought in a TV and everyone from customers and staff were all watching the events unravel in complete shock.I remembered seeing the images of the twin towers on fire and unfortunately the part of the broadcast of when the second plane hit the tower. That’s when I knew something truly evil and awful was happening on that infamous day.
I was in 7th grade as well and most of our classes we watched it all on TV.
I was in 6th grade when it happened, but we watched it happen live on TV as it unfolded. We got to school around 8:15 and when we heard it we were ushered out into a part of the school where three classes of 6th grade students were and watched until lunch. After lunch, we went back to our normal classes but some people were excused to leave from the trauma. It was also our picture day so we took pictures and had to fake smiles that day knowing what we had seen only an hour or two before.
As a World War II buff, I would like to point out an error in the video. In the video it said that Fat Man was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. That is incorrect. The atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima was Little Boy. Fat Man was the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Also I was disappointed that the Sinking of the Titanic was not mentioned in the video.
I remember the order from the phrase: You are a boy before you are a man.
@hypnotoad man, sure do I
Was Little Boy smaller than Fat Man?
TV didn’t exist back then, so it was harder to find out about it if you lived far away
I noticed that faux pas too....
I'm 42 and lived through alot of this. In my lifetime I would have to say 9/11 and covid are the two that truly changed everyday life. I'm sure the rest changed everything everywhere but these two I can say with confidence changed everything.
My dad used to work at TSA in Pittsburgh International Airport and was working when it happened, gives me chills when I hear my mom mention how my dad had zero clue what was happening until my mom called him
For many of these events I either wasn't alive yet or I didn't find out until I was at school the next day. I remember seeing footage of OJ SImpson, the Berlin Wall in classes in Junior High and High School. Sept 11 is probably the most vivid historical event in my mind and to this day I still CANNOT look at pictures of that day.
And don’t forget the space shuttle break aways
tell me about it, I saw footage of 9/11 on my tv screen before going to school that day and by the time I got there the news had gotten worse
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPit I agree. I personally think 9/11 outweighs Covid-19 by a long shot.
I remember seeing the 2nd tower get hit on live tv while getting ready for school-I was walking down the hallway and had a view of the tv when it happened.
I remember hearing about the OJ Simpson trial when I got older but don’t remember it-the murder was a couple months before I was born so I was just a toddler when the verdict came out.
@@jasonstrader3942 more people have died from covid though. I'm not saying that 911 isn't sad or tragic, just saying that it's caused way more deaths than 911
I know as an Oklahoman I’m probably biased, but I think the Oklahoma City bombing should be on this list. This was an attack that no one thought could happen, at a location no one would have ever thought of. And it did have a worldwide impact, as countries across the globe were shocked and, in some instances, worried they would be blamed. The US never expected to see such scenes of devastation here, especially not in a “rural” area like OKC.
You're absolutely right. It deserves a spot, especially since it was a domestic attack. Seeing the CBS special report come on is one of my earliest memories
No, that was not a big deal globally. I can think of many larger global events from the shooting of John Lennon to the downing of Pan Am Flight 103, which changed flying around the globe.
I'm British and the Oklahoma bombing was obviously on the news but they found it was homegrown terrorism immediately and from our perspective, the USA often has crazy events like constant school/mass shootings or Waco or Jonestown or the Boston Bombing or the attempted assassination of Reagan which was way bigger globally.
It probably felt massive to you as you lived nearby but globally there are dozens of bigger events in my lifetime. Chernobyl should be on the list, the 2002 tsunami and Fukashima. America losing the war to the Taliban was massive globally and completely changed the balance of power globally. Most Americans don't seem to release how much that changed how they are seen, it gave Putin confidence to invade Ukraine as he saw the US military completely collapse to the Taliban.
Anyway waffled sorry.
@@AnyoneCanSee 2002 tsunami? Do you mean 2004?
@@davidz3879 yep, that’s the one. That was crazy as hell, all those peoples who died and different countries where struck at the same time. Tragedy of global proportions.
Absolutely agree, I would also argue for the inclusion of the US surrender in Afghanistan, US surrender in Vietnam, and Germany invading Poland.
I was living in lower Manhattan when 9/11 happened. My son was only 7 months old. Watch the second tower get hit with my own eyes. That is something that is branded in my brain. No phones to contact family and the walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn took forever. Pushing my son in the stroller crossing the bridge the burnt smell of bodies and other debris is not something I can ever forget.
I am 31 years old and I have to say that 9/11 and the Covid pandemic really changed America and the world forever.
Rest In Peace to those that passed away.
Other than Osama bin Ladin, I presumed.
Amen.
I’m really shocked the Chilean miners recovery isn’t on this list. It was one the most watched events in the history of mankind.
I was one of the millions of children that watched the Challenger explode that day... just like a lot of schools around the nation that morning, I was watching with my entire school. We gathered in the cafeteria to watch the shuttle launch. One 5 different CRT televisions (one rollaway stands, remember those?), we witnessed the explosion. I still have memories of us just being so confused, as our PE coach went across all five tv's and turned them off. We were instructed to go back to class. Some of the kids thought it was part of the launch. Others thought it was "cool." Others (like myself), were confused as to why some of our teachers were crying. Once we got back to class, our teacher literally went about with the days lesson plan. I remember there was a prayer spoken over the PA just before we were let out. It wasn't until my uncle picked me up that I knew exactly what had happened - they died. I was in the 2nd grade...
I was in kindergarten when 9/11 happened, I remember seeing the reactions from teachers and the teachers talking to each other and crying and then my parents picked me up, and my dad wanted to see the towers up close, but they had already closed Manhattan off for cars, so we went to a nearby dunkin donuts and that's when my mom who was like 4 months pregnant with my sister watched the news on the TV with my dad and I and I recall my dad talking with the employees about what could've happen or who did it, and I remember my mom shedding a tear. And when we drove back home, there was a hill where you can pretty much see all of Manhattans buildings, and I remember seeing huge huge huge black smoke coming from Manhattan. I still have that memory now at 26 years old. What's so eerie to me is that 3 months before 9/11, we visited the towers and pretty much went to the observation deck, and still have that photo of me and the sphere behind me as well as the towers, and then a photo I have of the towers that my dad took. Never knew that would've been the last time I'd see them in person. So now I cherish those photos and look at them once in a while.
I once read a book called “We Interrupt This Broadcast” which had all the major events before the year 2000 discussed within it, and quite a few of them were on this list. They should make another book detailing all the most shocking events of the 21st century (when the century ends I mean)
I have that same book. It starts with the Hindenburg disaster and ends with the Disappearance of JFK Jr., right? There was a second updated edition I came across that added the Election of 2000 debacle and of course 9/11, but haven’t seen anything since.
@@oddjob914 yep that’s the one. Damn that brings back memories
Cool. Do you know the author of the book? I’m a simple dork and a total bibliophile. I love learning new things. Thank you for your help.
@@ChibiProwl Joe Garner
@@oddjob914 Thank you.😌
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." - Kurt Vonnegut
Awesome quote. Was that from one of his novels or just a comment he made.
If he had lived longer he would have continued to be endlessly surprised
What about history repeats itself
Ives With what's happening these days, it's sad how quickly they forget that saying.
Definitely the top 2 along with the death of Princess Diana stayed with me. The moment that shook me to the core was The Boston Marathon bombings, I went to the convention on that weekend in Hynes, the fact that the bomb went off exactly where I’ve walked a bunch of times and especially the picture of Tsarnaev right behind Martin Richard, the boy that died will always stay with me.
I'm 57. I' ve either heard of or lived through all of these events. 9/11 was the most dramatic, and "in my face". Means nothing to temperature/ climate change. I'm watching it happen in my own lifetime, for real. Way too fast for global changes to even be noticeable, but they are.
I was in kindergarten on 9/11 and it's one of my earliest concrete memories. I had no idea what was happening, but I remember our teachers taking turns going to the office to watch what was happening on TV. I knew something bad had happened when both of my parents came to pick me up early in the day and they were so quiet. I vaguely remember seeing some of the news coverage, but I was so young that most of that was kept from me.
I was in 7th grade and had a very similar experience. Got taken out of school early, teachers and administrators in the office watching coverage on the TV while waiting for my mom to pick me up
dang that's sad, I'm sorry
I was in 2nd grade. I remember my dad was getting ready to take me to school and we watched the 2nd plane hit. I'll never forget him running into the living room in his robe yelling to my mom "we're under attack".. still gives me chills.
I was in 5th grade. I remember my grandad calling my dad freaking out because he was certain 911 would trigger WW3. My grandad was a WW2 veteran so the fear was real.
I graduated from High School in 2001 a few months prior to 9/11 and I was thinking of joining the Army a couple months before 9/11 but I had to stay home to watch my brother cause my mom got on Survivor I’ve always thought what could of happened if she didn’t get on?
the 2008 financial crisis, I think was far more influential than other events on the list
It wasn’t really a a “moment”, and it’s not even the most consequential or sudden economic collapse of the last century. Let’s face it, in and after 2008 people were still buying iPhones and BMW’s, they just walked away from upside down homes because they thought of their home as their entire retirement nest egg instead their home as a home. Meanwhile the crash in 1929 happened in large part in a single day, and was followed by people lining up at soup kitchens for the following decade which was referred to as “the Great Depression” and only ended due to the single largest conflict in human history. The 2008 financial crisis was largely investment banks going under, meaning that while affected, 97% of the population didn’t lose a single dollar during 2008.
If it was influential then why have i never heard of it?
@@avian8923 Even though I don’t agree with the premise, there is literally a movie starring some of the biggest names in Hollywood reflecting what happened during that crisis. If you’re interested, it’s called, The Big Short. It’s both entertaining and informative.
I’ve literally never heard of that.
There is an extra thing in this list: eonic's death, when he was jumping out of a plane he forgot he parachute and died!!
For the Challenger shuttle mission, I was in the Air Force stationed at Edwards AFB at Transient Alert. Three weeks prior to the launch, 5 of the 7 astronaut were in my shop. They were there regularly to practice re-entry and Edwards landings in a Gulfstream jet. They were cool people to deal with and when the incident occurred the entire base was in stupor.
I went to a middle school called challenger which took the name from the shuttle and the school not to far from Edwards AFB
The Age of CORRUPTION,and the domination of the Powers of Darkness. Billions died for a minority to confisticate power,and to hold the majority in hostage ever after,even as at now !
My step father was stationed at Edwards!... small world 🙂
@@gmartines8511 The school was in Lancaster and was shaped like the B2 bomber ,until recently I lived about 2.5 miles away from there.
The Challenger was particularly brutal because i stayed home from school to watch the launch with my dad. I was only 6 years old and i was in stunned silence when it exploded. Started crying and hugging my dad asking him why it happened. Had nightmares about it for months... 9/11 was ghastly and horrific, but i was at least an adult.
One can argue being adult during 9/11 should've been even scarier 👀
Very interesting take on two terrible days experienced 15 years apart. Thank you for sharing.
Did you know that Christine McCullough had blue eyes? It's crazy, man. One blue over here one blue over there.
@@BonnerDoesRUclips 😂
@@oddjob914 Yeah I got a first class ticket to hell that appeared in my mailbox for that one.
Another event that deserves a mention on this list: the terror attacks of July 7, 2005 in London, I was 7 when this happened and my nanna worked on the trains from Leeds, UK to London and we were desperately trying to get through to her (luckily we did as her train got terminated at Peterborough)
I was in an airplane with my family moving from Hawaii to California on 9/11. I've always believed that the timezone difference between New York and Hawaii was why we weren't grounded, though I'm still not sure. I was 7 when it happened, but I never actually knew what was happening until a decade later; I do remember everyone, including my mom, being on edge and very nervous, and to think I was blissfully unaware the reason why.
better title: top 20 moments that made mostly the US stand still
Honestly 😂
Exactly 🤣🤣
What is with europe
@@chheinrich8486 they're madmen.
@@CoasterMan13Official thanks, im german
I remember the 9/11 attack so vividly. I was 6 years old in Sydney Australia (yes I’m an aussie) an I was watching TV just before bed and then seeing the Nine News interrupt what I was watching with the attacks and for a child who saw his father leave on a plane the day before I was devastated. Didn’t hear from him or anyone in the military if he was ok for a week or so. To this day I still remember what happened and were I was. Thou I was in another country, I felt some of the pain of what happened that day.
I'm older than you (also was in Canberra at the time) and was woken by a series of frick from an ex friends father. I think seeing my uncle the next weekend really put it into perspective given one of the engineers he was doing a favour for was allegedly in the building
I'm from Denmark and was 9 years old. I remember coming home from school and wanted to see some cartoons, turned on the TV and seeing the attack, thinking this is a really weird movie! It was just a live feed, no news anchor or anything for maybe 30 minutes, I was so confused, then the news anchors came on and I realized that it was real. It was surreal.
When this happened I thought the whole world is watching and will know about this.
I remember when I was watching tv when breaking news struck, it was about 9/11. I was so surprised
"Broke into the Capitol building" *shows people literally walking through an open door.*
As a german, it always fascinates me how much events germany has gone through during the past century. And some of them are so unique in this world. Unfortunately, not always in a good way. But surely that as well. Just like the fall of the Berlin wall. This always gives me goose bumps. 👍
7x1 ?
almost always not in a good way. um ehrlich zu sein 🧐
As an Englishman,you're English, impressed me ♥️
@@MrChristbait Clearly a low bar, It's 'your' not 'you're.'
I was there when the Berlin wall fell. 5 years old sitting on my father's shoulders. (American, dad was in Army) it was such a powerful moment, it's stuck with me forever. People coming together despite differences, feeling that excitement and love and peace in the air .......at the time all I saw were people laughing and smiling and destroying a wall with graffiti on it as it got darker and darker outside, then we went home. Wasn't until I was older did I realize how powerful and hopeful of a moment that was for humanity 🌎❤
I don’t know how old the person is that did this video, but anyone that was old enough to remember 9-11 would probably put it at #1 instead of #2. Over 20 years later and it still flashes in my memory whenever I hear someone mention it. I can remember exactly where I was, what I was doing, what I saw on the tv…
Nagasaki and hiroshima bombs were far worse then 9/11
Definitely.
Covid is still worse
@@itstrueaweeb true
Same Here! My Heart, Goes Out, To The Families 👪 That Have Lost Someone, To The Corona-Virus.
My Former Roommate, Caught The Corona-Virus, ( Like Me. ). But, My Caretaker, Before Hand, Got Me Vaccinated.
Our Caretaker Offered To Take Him, As Well. He Refused. Caught The Corona-Virus. And, Passed Away, In A Hospital 🏥
But, I Don't Think That Anyone, That Perished, On 9 / 11 , Had Any Plans To Die That Day, Except The Terrorists, Themselves.
So 9-11, Should Be #1!
So, I Figured That 9 / 11 Should Be #1.
I wasn't alive yet during a lot of these. I was actually at home chilling during the Capitol Incident, and I didn't know about it until like a week later. As for the Ukraine Invasion, I was also home. Same with like basically every major event. We really don't actually go places. The worst thing I've had happen was like 8 flash floods in my area. 1 happening so bad that our city was mostly underwater, as well as made the news.
i lived though these the same way so i know how you feel but i'm also laughing a bit because your profile is ron weasley
yeah jan 6th has nothing on 9/11 although Kamala doesn't think so.
I wasn't born for the Apollo landings and was only two when Chernobyl happened.
At 18:11 of this video at ranking number three the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki there is some slight historical accuracy it is stated that on on this video that on August 6 after Japan refused to surrender the US drop the atomic bomb codenamed “Fat Man” on Hiroshima, and then three days later on August 9 the atomic bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Nagasaki and that is incorrect the atomic bomb codenamed “Little Boy” was actually dropped on Hiroshima, and it was the atomic bomb codenamed “Fat Man” that was dropped on Nagasaki the dates of which the atomic bombings took place were correct though.
Some events stay with us forever. I remember hearing of JFK's assassination as a 4th-grader in a Catholic school in Yakima, WA. The memory of the shock and emotion is still with me. As a hIgh school sophomore in San Antonio, I watched the moon landing on TV with my siblings. Neighbors were drifting in and out of each others' homes as we all watched. My husband was stationed, with the US Army, in West Berlin, so we lived there in the late 1970's. I was working as night aufitor at a hotel in Dallas when the Berlin Wall came down, and I remember crying for happiness as I watched the news on the lobby TV. I was at work at a university library in San Antonio on September 11; all work came to a halt as we tried to get accurate news. The shock and sorrow semed endless.
My mom was a 1st grader in a Catholic school Cleveland, OH when the JFK assassination happened
I was six years old on 9/11. If I was just two years older, I probably would've been able to comprehend the magnitude of what was going on as it was happening. I was 25 years old when the pandemic started and I still can't comprehend what the hell is happening. We better land on Mars soon or the last moment that'll make the world stand still is Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars. 🥵☮🌻
I was 10 when 9/11 happened and I didnt understand it at all
Wow
I was 7, my grandmother tried to explain it to me as gently as possible, my mother was more blunt. Then just two years later, the Columbia disaster happened and my mother had to explain Challenger to me, killed my dream of being an astronaut, I wish I hadn't let that dream die though.
i was 7, & was just confused as to why people were mean. i was still in my own little (relatively) world of innocence. but i remember my mom explaining to me that some “bad people did bad things” & watched the towers fall over & over & over that evening. i think i only knew so much because most of my family lived in NY
I was personally 13 days from turning 19 months old (February 2000 kid) when 9/11 happened so yeah
I was 9, in the 4th grade when 9/11 happened. I even remember where I was sitting in the classroom. I also remember the principal getting on the intercom and telling the teachers very clearly to not turn on their TV's. I didn't think anything of it, of course. I was innocent and didn't think anything that bad could happen. When I got home Iearned about the attacks. The news was on 24/7 at my house. I still didn't totally understand. I saw Bush declare war, and wondered what exactly that meant. 3 of my cousin's joined the military.
These days, I despise the decisions made by thet Bush administration and I strongly disagree with the Iraq war decision.
I was the same age and grade as you. I remember it all very clearly too and watched it all day on tv too.
I was the same age!! We were watching the live news when the 2nd one hit and the school turned it off almost immediately after!
The Death of John Lennon is one that always stay with me. I was on the bus home from school when I heard it on the radio.
And, of course, the 2022 FIFA World Cup final.
You mixed up the atomic bombs and the cities they were dropped on; Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki while Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima
Tyler, you are correct. My father-in-law was stationed in Tinian and has stories to tell about the war and the unit that dropped the bombs.
Thank you!
As a history buff, this upsets me greatly. Thank you Tyler for catching it and saying something
I would say COVID was the first major event in my life that changed everything about everyday life. I've witnessed other events, such as The Boston Marathon, Sandyhook, etc. But March of 2020 just felt completely different. Im sure other events like Sept 11 and JFK were like this too, But I was born in 2002.
I was 18 when 9/11 happened, and for many people who were very young adults or teens at that time, it’s like life before 9/11, and now it’s life after 9/11. You were 18 when COVID happened. I imagine it’s very likely the exact same for you. Life before COVID, and now life after.
I was in elementary school when 9/11 happened and didn’t go to school that day. I wasn’t aware of the events at the time but i remember how it affected everyone around me that day and going forward. i agree w the comment above.. life before and life after. everything feels slightly different.
2020 was a rough year, I had my vaccinations and a booster but still ended up catching it because someone who had it at my mom’s dialysis clinic infected multiple people. I was stuck in bed for a few days and lost my sense of taste but bounced back fairly quickly. The fever dreams were the worst part!
Hopefully things will ease up a bit and give us a breather! I’m ready for a boring year where I don’t feel like karate chopping someone in the neck.
Edit: I was home sick when 9/11 happened but didn’t see the first plane hit. I went with my mom to get donuts and got home just in time to witness the 2nd plane hit. My school opted to make a bunch of angel cutouts and wrote a name of each life lost on them. We each picked two angels and wore them all week in tribute.
I moved to the Boston area in 2007. I was out of town on the marathon Monday 2013 and remember all that happened with the resulting man hunt. Ironically I live in the next town over from where they captured the bomber.
So true
I would include the murder of John Lennon on December 8, 1980. It was a Monday evening and Howard Cosell made the announcement during "Monday Night Football." The event was shocking and extremely heartbreaking. All these years later, my heart hasn't fully healed. It may never heal.
Yes, it was my birthday too. I went to school the next day wondering why so many kids were crying...someone then told me what happened.
I was in 8th grade English class and all of the teachers kept the tvs on all day and didn't teach that day just stood and watched it all day long
You forgot one of the most interesting parts of the Berlin wall being torn down. There was a miscommunication with one of Gorbachev's higher ups that was broadcasted. When East Berliners heard the message they started dismantling the wall.
No one stood still on 1/6 compared to related events.
Yeah I thought the same thing. But they had to appease the PC police in this video
Upon knowledge of the incident the class I was in was canceled
@@rocsanashope5441 congrats on the dumbest comment of the day. Appease the pc police so they had to put it on this list? Incredibly dumb.
And compared to the other events?... well yea, maybe that's why it wasn't near the top of the list and ahead of those others, considering half the country wanted to ignore it (not something pro Americans would do, but yea)
@@rocsanashope5441 The Oath Keepers in Arizona said it best: If you think state chapters of us support this idiot (Not Jon Schafer, the head of Oath Keepers nationally) who thinks we do him, please shut up.
17:00 I remember learning the "duck and cover" song in school during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was a song that taught you how to duck under your school desk and cover your head.
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I was in 7th grade in "86", I was 12. We were so shocked and saddened.
The Haiti earthquake was pretty tragic. Not bigger than the “capital attack” tho apparently.
These are moments in history, not natural disasters.
@@thomaskirkpatrick6254 their still moments in history, the tsunami in Indonesia claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, COVID is natural as were all the other pandemics, so disasters can be a part of history
It’s stupid to even put the insurrection on this list, bunch of Liberals over at watch mojo
@@seanslawson98 Not saying they can't be a part of history. Just that that's not what this video is about. Covid is natural, but the pandemic was absolutely caused by humans who don't care about other humans.
@@seanslawson98 Yes, you’re right, COVID 19 the virus is a natural occurrence but a pandemic is made by humans. You need humans to spread it after all. But calling the pandemic a man-made disaster or a natural disaster are both wrong: it is simply called a pandemic. It exists on its own.
September 11, 2001 was a day I'll never forget because of how everything changed around. NYC used to be a united front when I was a kid. People had your back in your neighborhood and strangers became friends. After 9/11, NYC did an about face and for some reason, that affected everybody else in the nation. I just wish everybody can go back to just being civil instead of being afraid and angry all the time
So true
Not taking light from what you said, but I interpreted from a PBS Frontline documentary that the effects 9/11 would have on the US (creating a sense of unity that spiraled into hate and division) was bin Laden’s true goal (along w his goal of piercing symbols of American governmental, military, and economic/civilian might).
Was in my college photo studio working. Another student was actually doing a shoot on this tv. Of course we had it on. Ran around confirming because it was too unbelievable!!!
Frightening. Spectacular. And oh so accurate. Good calls on these stories. I'm shook but agree with the choices.
The events that shook my early years were the death of Princess Diana, and the mass shooting at Columbine High School. My dad is English, and that morning as I was waking up for school, he and my mom were sitting silently watching the news which was something they rarely did. One of the few times I've seen him cry, I never knew how much he cared about her or the royals. And the day of the Columbine shooting was awful too, because all of our teachers were totally distraught, something that was really unsettling to witness as a 12 year old, because again, you don't see your authority figures emotional very often. They carried on with their lesson plans, but everyone was pretty fragile that day.
9/11 was a blur - students running through the halls that morning, teachers huddled in the staff room discussing a course of action, every screen in the school tuned into the live feed of what was going on. Fortunately, the staff had the sensitivity to keep the tvs off until after the towers came down, but we were all glued to the aftermath in my afternoon classes. Same when I got home, my parents were ashen when I got in. We knew people who lived in downtown Manhattan, and a couple of my friends had family members who worked in the World Trade Center who died that day. It was horrifying and you felt totally helpless.
Columbine was definitely a huge one for me too. I was an HS sophomore when it happened and things changed at school pretty quickly.
2004 Tsunami?
I honestly expected some of these to be higher but as someone who has a traumatic experience with the 9/11 attacks I can say that it deserves to be that high. if you are curious about what happened. Picture a kid in 4th grade who gets educated on those events and shone the death toll and the only thing you can hear is your other classmates laughing like it’s a joke when you’re witnessing people die. Yeah that’s a good way to ruin a kids innocence. Also for the Record I have had a history of abuse at a young age so PTSD did play a part but after that experience through the rest of school I’d always take that day off because I didn’t want to relive those memories. Almost cried when I saw number 2 but if you bothered to read all this, then props to you, you get a gold ⭐️
I was in class when the challenger exploded. Was stationed at fort Stewart Georgia during 9/11. We had a open base but once 9/11 happened the base became closed.
Also OJ verdict I was in Oklahoma for basic training..was in Afghanistan when bin laden was killed.
You guys realize The United States isn’t the world right?
Exactly! They even left out the 2004 tsunami.
They are Canadian and they weren’t all American. The World did stand still for lots of this
American here and I thoroughly agree. About half of these are Western world and/or American specific. People in Paraguay, Chad, Bangladesh, to name a few is a sea of others, didn’t care or didn’t know about most of these events, so how did the world stand still for them if most of the world didn’t care or know?
@@batgurrl "lots of these" isn't enough. The world didn't stand still for OJ, MLK, or the capitol riot. That last one in particular stands out with the narrator saying "glued Americans to their TVs"
@@Bozbaby103 what happened in those countries? Be specific
I was 4 years when 9/11 happened and to this day, 25 now, I can still remember what me and my siblings had to go through. So, I was in daycare while both my older brother and older sister, who was 6 and 8 at the time, were released from school which was right next door, early like around 1pm, and all three of us were waiting in the lobby where my dad comes in to take us to my grandma's house since me, my siblings, and my mom were living with her at the time and we lived closed by from the daycare and school. To put in perspective, the daycare and school are right next to the Brooklyn navy yard which means it was close to the world trade center across the water so all of that dust would make it hitting both buildings and covered us in that toxic dust. So, my dad took us home where my grandma was waiting and he had to leave to check on his other family (my mom and dad never married) and no one explained to us what was happening until I saw the second tower get hit on the news and watched the first tower fall that was my introduction to death and hate.
Once I saw that, I started thinking 'where's mom?' 'Did she make it out of Manhattan?' Is she still at work?' Until the phone rang and my mom, who works in New Jersey, called telling us that she can't make it home for a few days because Manhattan and all subways to Manhattan along with the ferry from Jersey to New York due to the attack. That day was the day I lost my innocence to the world and I wasn't even supposed to know what death is until I got older, I can still seeing and watching on my TV people jumping out of the tower knowing they were going ro die no matter what or how they knew they were not going to survive. Even now as an adult, I have never stepped foot near the world trade center and the memorial due to seeing those traumatic images and videos/records over and over again. And as I look out my window to see Manhattan and the empire state building, I know two buildings should be there a little bit next to it but it's not anymore
Children should never have to lose their innocence. I was only 3 when it happened. I never knew about it until I was in 8th grade. When I first heard about it, there was no word to express how angry I was.
Trump didn't urge them
I was 3 during 9/11 so I don't remember it but my was watching TV while doing the ironing when the channel changed. At first she thought it was a movie because it was so unbelievably horrific.
I was 21 when the pandemic hit and I remember how confusing everything was. If I hadn't been able to keep going to work I think I would have struggled a hell of a lot more.
Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima and Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. Kind of a big detail to get wrong.
But not everyone was watching it when it happened. Otherwise I would’ve said the same thing. It hits different if you know the direct history behind it.
Because the World isn't depressing enough now...lets do a recap.
Funny, but not funny. So true
FACTS! 😩😂
September 11th has to be by far the worst disaster in history
I was young but I remember the Apollo mission as there was nothing else on TV. And after watching 3 replays of the Challenger blowing up I could not bear to turn the TV back on.
There are a few of these that i remember very clearly and which I felt impacted by at some level. Chernobyl, when I was 14, was terrifying - I remember watching the news when word started to get out and then listening to more new on the radio when i went to bed. The fall of the Berlin Wall and Mandela being freed both sit in a similar space in my mind - there were a few years where things seemed, from my ltd perspective to all being going in the right direction. It was thrilling seeing the reports of people clambering on the wall, and taking sledge hammers to it - felt like I was watching the world change.
The Death of Diana got me - and I would never have thought such a thing would. I wasn't then and still am not particularly interested or invested in the monarchy, but there was something strangely moving about the outpouring of grief from all quarters, and it did seem to feel like we had lost something as a nation - and just at an individual level, it was tragic to see the two boys lose their mother. It was a strange time that.
I don't think anything I've seen before or since had as much impact on me as 9/11. I heard about it first of all from an online friend who lived in the US - when he initially said they'd been an attack on the world trade centre i was thinking he meant some fairly limited but disturbing act of terrorism like we'd all seen or heard of before, but then when I turned on the TV and saw it unfolding.... two decades later and I still feel a little bit traumatised by it, even though I was all the way over here in the UK and not directly connected to anybody there or affected by any of it. It still plays on my mind from time to time, the horror of it.
Honorable mentions: Oklahoma City bombing, 2004 tsunami, 1929 stock market crash, Waco Texas
Michael Jackson dying
YES 👍🏻
They deserve to be on this list over Capitol riots and death of OBL
thank you for mentioning the Waco seige... an abhorrent standoff resulting in needless lives that were lost over miscommunication.. 😔😔
@@anapalato umm Joan Rivers??
I was asleep on 1/6 (thank god) due to a 3rd shift job. I was not surprised after all the violence and insanity of 2020.
9/11 I was in 7th grade. I just remember being in math when someone came in to tell the teacher to turn on the TV. My airheaded ass still couldn't comprehend that kind of trauma or the magnitude of how the world would change.
Additional mentions
The Boston Marathon Bombing - 2013
Muammar Gadaffi's Demise - 2011
The Columbine Shooting - 1999
The Attack on Pearl Harbor - 1941
Also Bosnian War and Haiti Earthquake and Kim Jong Nam murder and the Thailand cave boys
I'm 53 so I remember seeing a lot of those events live, & yes I do remember where I was. There are of course many more significant events, but that video would last for years, kudos for including things that are happening up to the present day, not everything memorable happened in the past, & may the Ukrainian people be free to see a peaceful future.
Rumor has it the souls are still standing on the Bridge Of Death in Chernobyl.
I was in 5th grade when 9/11 happened.
At my school, the students would usually wait outside the classroom door until the teacher came to let us inside. But on that day, the teacher was already there, holding the door open and telling us to quickly come inside. Once everyone was inside, she then turned on the radio and had us write down what we were hearing. At that time, I knew some really bad stuff had just happened but I didn’t comprehend the full magnitude of it until later on.
That night (or maybe the next day), I remember watching the news with my grandma and she was telling me that there were some people in the world who were happy that 9/11 happened. If I hadn’t seen the news footage of people cheering and saying things like “death to America!” I wouldn’t have believed her.
Still feels surreal to remember something like that.
9/11, I was 3 - my mum says that we were on a light back from Heraklion to Manchester, UK (as the UK is where I live) when the twin towers got hit, but we didn’t hear about it until we got into the airport
That’s a cute way to frame the narrative of the riot at the capitol building.
It’s the true way too
Lets hear what really happened then. Come on dont worry ill wait let me guess, "leftist did it"
Today I learned that the quote "Oh, the humanity!" did not originate from Kiki's Delivery Service, but from the Hindenburg disaster. I love history.
Most of the people watching this probably weren’t even alive for half of then but still a awesome video
i remember sitting at my desk on Jan 6th watching it all unfold. Got out of class early and I was glued to my screen
I only disliked because you put 1/6/2021 in this lineup. It wasn’t even close to a significant event. If it really was an insurrection the capital building would have been ashes.
@@w29n22b27 also the claim that the voter fraud claim was "debunked" in courts was laughable, when it was reported that the courts refused to see the evidence and would prematurely cancel the hearings.
Yeah, there were plenty of other events which could have been put in there. That event was so overblown compared to many of the riots which took place the summer before, which actually destroyed properties.
9/11 is probably the biggest world event that is etched in my memory. I remember watching the live news in my elementary class as the second plane hit the tower, and I thought it was a movie or something.
I was in 1st grade. Reading class. The teacher put the news on in class. And all the teachers were crying. I thought it was a movie. Now I’m in the military. That day paved my path
For the two most recent events, January 6th and the COVID 19 pandemic, I remember thinking that they would be “where were you when” moments.
This might not be a big deal to most folks, but when Dr. Jeffrey Weigand blew the whistle on Big Tobacco, it changed the way smoking is perceived and banning indoor smoking everywhere in the US. I salute him for this bravery for standing up to the truth and not caving in to pressure from those who threatened to harm him. Then a few years later the flight attendants' union members complained about second-hand smoke on aircraft, alerting us to the dangers of second-hand smoke. Too bad these news items were not nearly as gripping.
*that made America standstill
Honorable mentions should have included: Apollo 13, the Fukushima earthquake/tsunami, the space shuttle Columbia, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Waco, and the completion of the Human Genome Project
uvalde now too
Vegas. Orlando Pulse Nightclub. Not many events I can recall where I was when things happened. But I have my moments. Boston, I just got back to high school after touring a local college and was in a computer lab when I broke the news to everyone. Yeah. I broke the news about a terrorist attack to fellow students and 1 teacher. And everyone looked at me in shock. Thinking I would talk about the weather, and instead hearing that come out of my mouth.
Vegas, it was only a day or two after my first surgery for some condition I have. My dad and I were watching CNN as that broke.
A trial like O.J. Simpson went through got old after going on for months. However, the day the verdict was announced, I was at work waiting to hear. The stress I had put myself in made me think I was near to having a heart attack. The verdict was difficult to accept, but I was able to release the huge stress and begin to function again.
I was at my school- watching Challenger explode, right before our eyes- the whole school shut down and sent all the children home 😭 I still have a hard time watching the footage- so sad
My grandmother witnessed the Hindenburg disaster.
You switched the order of the bombs being dropped. Since the Bomb known as Little Boy was based on a gun-type concept, its design did not need prior testing, where instead the one known as Fat Man was based on the new concept of implosion. When the trinity test had eventually demonstrated its functionality, the gun-type bomb was already on its way to Tinian, where the B-29 squadron that was to deliver the bombs was stationed.
I’m 54 and witnessed a lot of these. The one that really shook me to my core, was watching live, the Challenger explosion.
Well I can say now i am an old man because I lived through almost all these events and remember most of them in detail. Because of my love of history I have studied all of these events through books and videos and documentaries (thank you mom and dad for giving me the love of reading and wanting to learn so much history I never knew of all the events I would witness in my lifetime)
I start with the moon landing, but I fully appreciate the love and desire to study and get a greater understanding about these and other events.
That lightbulb moment for me was when I watched “All The President’s Men.” Watergate was all over the tv when I was very youn, but I had no understanding. When I saw that movie, I thought “ Wow, so that’s what Nixon did!” Then I started looking for books and movies about other events in the past.
So when you say the world you mean mostly America?
no all of these were spread world wide so unless you have no heart I'm pretty sure these left people standing still
Oh yes because only America had television and radio. You don't have to be American to have some of these entries to have any form of an impact on you. After the Chernobyl disaster" was a big deal and its aftermath is still felt to this day.
All of these were huge worldwide stories. Weird for you to try to make this something it isn't
What else is there?
they were big stories world wide..... bit I get what the poster is saying. there are others event that happened, more shocking than some on this list, but missed out because they happened outside the US
9/11 really freaked me out because a few hours before I had a dream about dodging falling buildings with my dog. I didn't realize the significance of the dreams until the Towers fell.
Nostradamus in the making!
I was in kindergarten when Challenger exploded. My mom and I watched it live on tv. It's sad that it was 100 % preventable had NASA listened to the engineers; one even flat out saying that the shuttle was going to explode.
9/11, I was getting dressed to attend a dear friends funeral. I barely had the energy to attend, I was so overwhelmed! So terribly bizarre AND tragic 😢