The Shot That Shook The World!

The Shot That Shook The World!

Robbed from ITN but an EXCELLENT talking point!

ITN News are doing a thing where it's allowing you to select what YOU think is the most significant/influential piece of news ever caught on camera - They've split it down into 5 catergories - Global conflict, People Power & politics, Human Tragedy, worlds firsts and Sporting Greats

BUT for the sake of arguement here, lets make it simple - What do YOU think is the best/worst/whatever item of current affairs to affect the world around us?

The chap in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, Challenger blowing up, first shots of the Berlin Wall coming down, etc... you get the drift - REMEMBER it's got to be a FAMOUS piece of footage

Mines gotta be the planes hitting the world trade centres... i remember seeing it on the 6pm news and not being able to believe people were flying passenger planes into such landmarks... everyone knew the world changed that day

World's first has got to be the moon landing.
Not sure whether the WTC coming down would be conflict or human tragedy, but it's got to be in there somewhere.

ditto i will never forget that day as long as a live

how do you kno the moon landing even happened. i dont think it did. Why have they not put another man on the moon, 30 years on and there still having problems in space, nevermind the moon.

mine would have to be the WTC, i was shocked when i heard about it

Mine too. Boy, that shocked me. I dont even belive it at first

I know, and I'm still not totally convinced, but if you discount the conspiracy theories it would have to be up there.

Forgot to mention the Tsunami

Aww, all this makes me dead sad!!

are u a yank?

LEAVE THE X-FILES BOX SET ALONE... the truth is MUCH simpler

Sporting greats - '66 World Cup (for us Brits anyway)? Was Roger Bannister's first under four-minute mile televised (this was a pretty major breakthrough as many doctors and scientists said it couldn't be done)?

I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theories surrounding the WTC

The most significant news event to have happened in my life time imo is the fall of the Berlin Wall

yes it was... black and white, loads of people around, he stumbles over the line - good one!

WTC, I was at school at the time and I remember watching the coverage in a Science lesson ... without realising the significence of the event about three or four weeks later

Again for the sake of variety what about Hiroshima (or was it Nagasaki?)..

That footage was breathtaking..

The most significant to happen within my lifetime is, again, the WTC.
When someone told me 2 planes had crashed into them and one in the pentagon I told them to fuck off and stop winding me.

I wish they had of been..

In my life time it would be

WTC
Berlin Wall
Tsunami
Gazzas goal against Scotland in Euro 96
Tony Blair addressing the nation about start of Iraq War
Queen Mum Funeral
Princess Diana dying

Yes, the Berlin Wall- unfortunately i wasn't too young to appreciate it :0)

Oh, and Thatcher losing power was quite a significant thing for me at the time- didn't quite work out as i'd hoped though :0(

pant-messingly good! i still remember that day, who i was with, where... happy days

I remember watching that on tv as well and being glad! I didn't know much about politics but I never liked the look of Mrs Thatcher

and i thought it was "thats life!" - what a show! a dog that says 'sausages' and a potato shaped like a willy - classic!