Our Defining Days

[poisonedpure]

According to Hywel Williams the 50 defining events that have changed the course of world history are as follows:

1. The Battle of Salamis- 28th September 480 BC

2. The Assassination of Julius Caesar- 15th March 44BC

3. The Crucifixion of Jesus-Good Friday c.30AD

4. The Dedication of Constantinople- 11th May 330

5. A Confederacy of German Tribes Crosses

Comments

[mercurial_realm]

where is the dissolution of the slave trade, the death of Emily Pankhurst, Nuremburg , the concentration camps of Auswitch, D-Day, the assassinations of John F Kennedy or Martin Luther King, or the electronic balloting debacle that helped the Bush administration win the election? I could go on. Some very odd choices there.

[poisonedpure]

Good examples. One of the noted things that should have been included, as I stated in a long discussion with a fellow co-worker was the Abolishment of Apartheid (is that how you spell it?), the Chernobil accident, D-Day, the assassination of John F Kennedy...

One major one for me was how the First World War began, which was touched on by the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but what "actually" precluded that and should have been noted was that he was assassinated by the Serbian Nationalist secret society "The Black Hand". THAT is what started the war, not the assassination in itself.

[poisonedpure]

You know, it is very sad that the abolition act was passed yet did not stop slavery.It is sadder still that the Apartheid was not released until 1991.

Makes you wonder about the state of the world.

[poisonedpure]

I should probably note as well on that subject that the Establishment of the "crime of apartheid" by the International Criminal Court in 1973 but it took 20 years later before the crime was actually punishible and the apartheid lifted.