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What was the greatest historical event that occurred in your lifetime?

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What was the greatest historical event that occurred in your lifetime?


8 Responses to “What was the greatest historical event that occurred in your lifetime?”


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    Karel Polanský says:

    The August 21. 1968 when Soviet dictator Breznev sent primitive Russian soldiers to suppress nucleus of freedom in my country Czechoslovakia. I was 23 old this time and I spent all the day in the streets of Praha…

  2. 2
    Ed Hamilton, Danville, Illinois says:

    The assassination of JFK

  3. 3
    David Pulliam says:

    9/11, or the end of the USSR, but I don't remember it happening. I was still just learning about my own backyard.

  4. 4
    Jerry Parker says:

    The fall of the Berlin Wall, among many great events.

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      Mike FRancella says:

      I agree. I was around when it went up, and and never imagined in my lifetime it would come down. Like all history, no matter how far you want to go back-2,3 4 thousand years, it all comes down to money.

  5. 5
    Bill Wells says:

    Moon landing for me. Too young to appreciate it at the time but looking back it is a great reminder of what we can accomplish when we focus on a goal as a society.

  6. 6
    Darryl MacDonald says:

    World War II

  7. 7
    Bluto Smatz says:

    Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon; Berlin Wall coming down & Soviet Union collapsing



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