The shot that shook the world.

[Angelizickle]

So what would you choose from these?

Sorry if this has already been done.

oooo tricky one.

Global Conflict - gosh that's a hard one - Twin Towers

People Power and Politics - Mandela

Human Tradgedy - Ethiopian Famine

World Firsts - Heart Transplant

Sport - Johnny Wilkison

That twin towers image is horryfying is't it?
Also the picture of that little girl in Beslan, so haunted

I think the Global Conflic one was the hardest one to choose in.

isnt this phrase supposed to refer to the shot that killed some royal in 1914 and started ww1?

or am i referring to ancient history?

oh i didn't know that stitch.

just done a google and found this

"The Day That Shook The World [VHS] (1977)
Powerful historical drama examining the events that led to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, which led to WWI."

So yes I guess it could be

Trouble with this survey is that people are bound to pick the recent things as there are more people who remember them. I was just looking at the Aberfan disaster and thinking that was worse in some respects than something like Dunblane and yet I have been far more haunted by Dunblane than by Aberfan.

Before i'd seen the shots i thought Ethiopia, twin towers and Berlin Wall.

1. twin towers

2. berlin wall

3. tsunami

4. man on the moon- (was this real though? have a friend at college who fills me with conspiracy theories about it.

5. jonny, although the liverpool game was the most exciting footbal match i have ever watched.

I don't think so - look at some of the surveys of 'best movies' etc - lots of "old" ones make it into the lists. And certainly some of the ones I selected weren't the most recent.

I think Beslan gets my vote over Twin Towers - purly because of the poor kiddies involved. That picture of the girls face just makes me want to cry.

YAY - another Jonny Fan

That shot was awesome and I could watch it over and over again. I was 39 weeks pg and I was bouncing around the room afterwards (waters broke the following day LOL).

QoQ, he is just divine isnt he? what i wouldnt do to be locked away in a 5* luxury hotel room with him. god that body.

Twin Towers
Martin Luther King
Ethiopia
Test Tube Baby
Maradona

Why is t that if you click on Concorde's first flight, you get Dolly the sheep?!

I just had a look lonelymum - I got concorde when I clikced concord?

No I just get Dolly and if I click on dolly, I get Dolly again.

Global conflict - WW1 (cos WW2 a direct result of way WW1 was handled, never mind horrendous loss of life in WW1 itself).

People, power and politics

Human tragedy - Martin Luther King, Ghandi

World firsts - agree QoQ, heart transplant

Sport - the incredible black swimmer whose hand Hitler refused to shake at 1936 olympics

I remember Aberfan happening. My father went to help to dig our the ruins, almost all of the local men did. It was awful. I had just started in nursery school and the children killed were in the school that got hit by the waste tip. All of the adlts kept saying ' It could have heppened to her' meaning me, as our school was right by a waste tip. It scared me so much I had nightmares and would hide under the stairs....someone mentioned this was the safest place to be in the house.

It was horrific. Not on the scale of the others , obviously, but a very personal link to this one for me.

Tiredemma, thay did go to the moon btw, there was an excellent prog on tv not that long ago de-bunking the conspiricy theories. It was excellent