Events
Time freezes. No matter where you are, there you are. All other actions flow back to a single instant that becomes a new benchmark, a new standard... at least until the next one. Each of these nominations represents a unique event that shall endure the ravages of time.
Nominations
Consider nominating any of the following candidates under the Events category. Highlighted candidates have already been nominated. To view the nominees, place your cursor anywhere over the text of the nominee and click (pop-ups must be enabled on your browser):
The Star of Bethlehem (7-4BC)
Halley's Coment and The Battle of Hastings (1066AD)
Michelson-Morley Experiment (1887)
Tunguska Event (Siberian Comet – 1908)
Solar Eclipse of 1919
World’s First Liquid-Propellant Rocket (3/16/1926)
Sputnik (USSR Launch – 1957)
The Space Race (1957-1969)
Yuri Gagarin’s First Manned Space Flight (1961)
Alan Shepard’s First Mercury Space Flight (1961)
Apollo 7 transmits first live TV broadcast from manned U.S. spacecraft (10/14/1968)
Man on the Moon (Apollo XI – 1969)
“Houston, we’ve had a problem”/“Failure is Not an Option” (Apollo XIII – 1970)
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