For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.
I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.
So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.
Queen at Live Aid.
That’s a great call.
Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.
The moment that life on earth began.
Apollo moon landing
Mine would be witnessing the first nuclear explosion at the trinity test site.
Like…up close??
i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.
Brutus stabbing some little king wannabe.
Would you take a turn like everyone else?
Probably not. Just watch from a safe distance, and perhaps add fuel to the fire screaming “sic semper tyrannis!”.
“Weird accent, but right on pal!” - Some Roman, probably.
When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.
Take his bullets and poison away. Let the Russians deal with him.
I’ve always wished I could have taken part in the Menlo Park Homebrew Computer Club from 75 to 86.
The first meeting of the club was held on March 5, 1975, in French’s garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People’s Computer Company. Steve Wozniak credits that first meeting as the inspiration to design the Apple I.
So I guess I would use the incredible advancement of time travel to go back a few years before I was born to hang out in some dude’s garage.
Jan 6, so i can blast benny hill music.
I’d cross the Alps with Hannibal. I can’t imagine, living right now right where he went straight through, what it looked like at he time.
The extinction of the dinosaurs. Or the big bang.
Either of those sound like a blast.
I’d love to be in the room when George Lucas first screens Star Wars to Spielberg and pals. The version before Marcia Lucas saved it with her editing prowess.
