top 5 most important moments in your life time.

[Cloud No.9]

what are the top 5 (world news) most important moments that you can remember in your life?

[Mihhailovitš]

1991- Collapse of the Soviet Union
1991 20.August- Estonia(my homecountry) declares itself independent
9.11.2001 - Duh
2001-2003 Lots of stupid wars as moments.

[Cloud No.9]

well i'm only 17 so while the fallof communism falls within my life time (it happened the day before my second birthday and so the papers with it on i have kept and are my birthday) it cannot remember it so doesn't count.

i'm left with very little that has actually made a huge impact. alot of it is fairly modern.

9-11
today really.
the asian tsunami
pope's death
diana's death

devolution was never a big thing for me. neither were most of the wars because i was too young to comprehend.

diana's death i don't care for. but i remember it very clearly. everything kind of stopped for a while. it was like sacred. same with the pope.

[tomamar04]

Diana's death
Man United winning the Champions league
The one in my sig
9/11
Asian Tsunami.

[Peegee]

Apparently the Berlin wall fell during my lifetime. Anything else is pretty much covered by you < 25 year olders.

[Little Miss Awesome]

Erm, well, this is only from what I can remember!
1) 9/11
2) The Tsunami
3) The Pope's death
4) Cloning, it just seems so... futuristic but it actually happens!
5) Live 8! It's going to make a massive impact and I hope it really can help make poverty history!

[Odaisé Gaelach]

1) Changing the state exam papers in Navan (2005).
2) Death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
3) 9-11 (2001).
4) Ireland's campaign against Sellafield (2002-2003).
5) The tsunami

I was born in 1987, so the fall of Berlin wall, the fire at Chernobyl Reactor No. 2, the GIGN assaulting the Air France plane all happened in my lifetime but I don't remember any of them so they don't count.

EDIT: Added 5)

[Dixie]

1-9/11
2-The Tsunami
3-Death of Pope John Paul II
4-Death of Princess Diana
5-The announcement of the War Against Terrorism

That's it.

[Vaprice]

1) Brazil winning the world cup
2) Brazil winning the world Cup
3) Korea getting 4th place in World Cup
4) Brazil vs. France
5) Brazil winning the world cup

... xD sorry

1) being adopted
2) being athletic at every sport
3) 9/11 I was there when the plane hit the pentagon
4) Asian tsunami
5) Pope's death and the new Pope!

[SomethingBig]

2) Death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
3) 9-11 (2001).

I don't mean to criticize you, as I am just curious. Why do you feel that the death of one man is more important to the death of hundreds of others?

[Cloud No.9]

because he was a hugely powerful and influential man. it was huge news.

also world cup or football wins do not change this world. and being athletic is not world news.

[ThroneofDravaris]

I don’t know about importance, but these are the events that pissed me off the most when they cut into my Australian television viewing schedule:

1) 9-11 ( It took two days for the channels to return to normal broadcasting!)
2) Some land slide somewhere ( can only remember that it cut into my Saturday morning cartoons, and most of the afternoon)
3) Diana’s Death ( I think they cancelled a show I like in order to put on some stupid documentary about her)
4) Tsunami (wasn’t in the country for this one, but apparently it was broadcast continually for an entire day)
5) When Saddam Hussein was captured (meh, a few hours, nothing much)

I'm so glad I have Foxtel now, so I don’t have to put up with any of this crap invading my viewing schedule!

[Odaisé Gaelach]

I don't mean to criticize you, as I am just curious. Why do you feel that the death of one man is more important to the death of hundreds of others?

I'm a Catholic but not an American. I just didn't feel the same empathy with all those that suffered in 9-11 as I did when the Pope died.

[edczxcvbnm]

1) Pizza is invented
2) Water is bottled and sold for insane amounts of money
3) Videogames are invented
4) The internet is invented
5) Satillite TV is invented

[-N-]

I'm assuming this is world events, not personal events.

9/11 occurs.
Columbia explodes.
Bhuj earthquake.
USSR collapses.
The Internet. Good one, ed.