Board 8 > Most singular eventful day in history?

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Big Bob
12/04/20 7:31:16 PM
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Which day was the most impactful in history?










I probably left a ton out. These just stuck out to me at first.

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Zylothewolf
12/04/20 7:33:43 PM
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Im going with Storming the Bastille, but maybe experts will tell you that the impact of the French Revolution wouldve happened sooneror later anyway?

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Johnbobb
12/04/20 7:35:08 PM
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Franz Ferdinand was my first thought, but in reality I feel like it's something from much, much earlier

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turbopuns3
12/04/20 7:36:34 PM
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I heard there was one time a big rock fell from the sky and shit got fucked up pretty good
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Pokalicious
12/04/20 7:39:53 PM
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The day I was born.

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Big Bob
12/04/20 7:40:49 PM
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Well, the Chicxulub asteroid was technically prehistory. :P

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XIII_rocks
12/04/20 7:43:23 PM
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Yeah came in to say the dinosaur asteroid
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turbopuns3
12/04/20 7:43:28 PM
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Big Bob posted...
Well, the Chicxulub asteroid was technically prehistory. :P

Irrelevant!
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_SecretSquirrel
12/04/20 7:48:33 PM
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The day the Roman Empire legalized Christianity.

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Palbatross
12/04/20 7:51:32 PM
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Along the same lines of SecretSquirrel --

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge. 28 October 312.

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RyoCaliente
12/04/20 8:15:46 PM
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_SecretSquirrel posted...
The day the Roman Empire legalized Christianity.

And there is really no contest whatsoever.

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MitchMcConnell
12/04/20 8:18:04 PM
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Battle of Salamis. September, 480 BC. Literally the moment where western civilization won the battle of cultural dominance for the next 2500 years.
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norenxaq
12/04/20 8:19:30 PM
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a nit: christ died no later than 30 ad
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Reg
12/04/20 8:24:57 PM
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Johnbobb posted...
Franz Ferdinand was my first thought, but in reality I feel like it's something from much, much earlier
yeah, I had the same thought.

I'd probably put forth August 24, 410 (Fall of Rome) for consideration too, even though the empire as a whole was clearly on the decline and this was just the culmination of it, and I wouldn't vote for it regardless.
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Wanglicious
12/04/20 8:40:20 PM
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technically this favors the older dates only because history afterwards can have a direct line to it. Ferdinand technically has a claim for the modern world since that was WW1, which spawned WW2 as a direct result, which gave the situation for the Cold War and the way the entire world has had markets move ever since. but that's just too many steps removed for my liking and it doesn't really feel like a singular eventful day or what it directly caused, it's just a tweaked butterfly effect.

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wg64Z
12/04/20 8:43:10 PM
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Wow these results are...American as hell.

Definitely Dinosaur Meteor though.

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SovietOmega
12/04/20 8:50:37 PM
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Definitely the day that the universe began a process of rapid expansion and various forces and light elements were established, leading to galaxies, our sun, and Earth with all of us humans doing silly things on it.

Either that or the other day when I had a sandwich. I was quite hungry and it really hit the spot.

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wallmasterz
12/04/20 9:01:27 PM
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the day ertyu created his YouTube channel

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12/04/20 9:50:04 PM
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link vs draven

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Forceful_Dragon
12/04/20 10:00:21 PM
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"most impactful in history" seems to be at odds with "singular eventful day".

I would think singular eventful day would be regardless of historical impact. So August 6th, 1945 (hiroshima) or August 9th, 1945 (nagasaki) would be more eventful than December 7th, 1941 even though Pearl Harbor set more things into motion, including both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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azuarc
12/04/20 10:01:01 PM
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Burning of the Great Library of Alexandria (48 BC)

If for no other reason, we could have had access to the steam engine 1800 years sooner.

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Yesmar_
12/04/20 10:07:51 PM
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Hmm..of the ones listed, I am tempted to say Franz Ferdinand, since it seems the least inevitable.* Columbus and Jesus feel more important, but discovering the New World was inevitable, and I'm unsure as to how much Jesus being a martyr contributed to Christianity's spread. I know virtually nothing about the Battle of Hastings or its context, however.

Rome legalizing Christianity is certainly a contender as well, and I would also add Louis XVI convoking the Estates-General as an honorable mentioned that is not listed.

*9/11 wasn't inevitable either, but it's too soon IMO to consider it on par with the others.

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NFUN
12/04/20 10:20:51 PM
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azuarc posted...
Burning of the Great Library of Alexandria (48 BC)

If for no other reason, we could have had access to the steam engine 1800 years sooner.
That library was already pillaged and disused for decades by then

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Zazabar
12/04/20 10:22:34 PM
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I'm thinking the earliest of the bunch be the most eventful. If we're talking long term and butterfly effect-wise, that would make sense. If one event didn't happen, it wouldn't have led to any of the other events happening.

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MysticBrohan
12/04/20 10:57:43 PM
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What the fuck happened between Jesus and everything else? On some One Piece void century shit

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red13n
12/04/20 11:00:31 PM
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I'm surprised no one has tried to be cute and say November 8th, 2016.

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NFUN
12/04/20 11:09:46 PM
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I'm surprised no one has tried to be cute and say their birthday

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Big Bob
12/04/20 11:11:44 PM
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And I will say that Pandemics, while world-changing, can't really be measured in a single day. I can't exactly put "late 2019 - some dude in China ate a bat".

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norenxaq
12/04/20 11:19:28 PM
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ye: discovering the new world was not inevitable. esp considering it took a few years after columbus' voyage to realise he didn't land near india
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MetalmindStats
12/04/20 11:30:31 PM
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MitchMcConnell posted...
Battle of Salamis. September, 480 BC. Literally the moment where western civilization won the battle of cultural dominance for the next 2500 years.
Gotta say, this shows a clear lack of understanding of pre-modern history, especially as it pertains to East and South Asia.

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red13n
12/04/20 11:42:11 PM
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Big Bob posted...
And I will say that Pandemics, while world-changing, can't really be measured in a single day. I can't exactly put "late 2019 - some dude in China ate a bat".

Would just go with the day a pandemic was declared.

We've had a couple other close calls with global pandemics but they all got contained or fizzled out.

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NFUN
12/04/20 11:59:47 PM
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norenxaq posted...
ye: discovering the new world was not inevitable. esp considering it took a few years after columbus' voyage to realise he didn't land near india
It totally was (and your second point is completely irrelevant). Columbus wasn't special. His motivations were not unique, with the rest of the world unsympathetic to what he hoped to achieve. He wasn't even the first European to find the new world. You really don't think anybody else would've explored the Atlantic just to see what was there if he hadn't? Explorers *explore*, even if they were profit motivated. Hell, Columbus got there only a couple of decades after the technology even *existed* to travel across the ocean

Columbus's main attribute that led to his accomplishment was being bad at units

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NFUN
12/05/20 12:04:32 AM
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MetalmindStats posted...
Gotta say, this shows a clear lack of understanding of pre-modern history, especially as it pertains to East and South Asia.
i see you're not well-acquainted with sephy

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MZero
12/05/20 12:05:01 AM
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NFUN posted...
Columbus's main attribute that led to his accomplishment was being bad at units

and remembering to call dibs

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NFUN
12/05/20 12:14:29 AM
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MZero posted...
and remembering to call dibs
his decision to call "fives" after leaving the caribbean for the first time was truly one of the most brilliant maneuvers in history

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MitchMcConnell
12/05/20 12:14:39 AM
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MetalmindStats posted...
Gotta say, this shows a clear lack of understanding of pre-modern history, especially as it pertains to East and South Asia.
Yes, remember when East and South Asian cultures colonized every other continent on the planet and created the economic system that is used by 95% of the world's population?

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SocialistGamer
12/05/20 12:20:25 AM
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November 22 1963

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Xeybozn
12/05/20 12:35:10 AM
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Zazabar posted...
I'm thinking the earliest of the bunch be the most eventful. If we're talking long term and butterfly effect-wise, that would make sense. If one event didn't happen, it wouldn't have led to any of the other events happening.

This. It's obvious that the most impactful day in history has to be the first day ever. Or possibly before the first day, if 24 hour time periods before days existed qualify.
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norenxaq
12/05/20 12:55:02 AM
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nf: considering how difficult it was to get any backing, yes
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TheCodeisBosco
12/05/20 1:06:32 AM
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10/02/1975: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury is released.

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xp1337
12/05/20 1:08:46 AM
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My first thought was Franz Ferdinand but that's definitely modern bias talking, I think. Crucifixion/Roman Empire legalizing Christianity are good calls.

Chicxulub asteroid feels like cheating in a similar sense if one were to go "Supposed impact date on proto-Earth that led to the formation of the Moon" or "Day of Earth's Formation" or "Big Bang."

Offering up another date of note: September 26, 1983 - Petrov correctly assumes that the early warning station under his command saying there were 5 incoming ICBMs from the US was a false alarm and ignored Soviet policy to report to his superiors about the "attack."

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RySenkari
12/05/20 2:16:09 AM
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April 5, 1815 - The eruption of Tambora

July 16, 1945 - The Trinity test

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MetalmindStats
12/05/20 2:29:29 AM
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MitchMcConnell posted...
Yes, remember when East and South Asian cultures colonized every other continent on the planet and created the economic system that is used by 95% of the world's population?
Too bad that doesn't magically make your claim of a full 2,500 years of Western dominance correct.

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MZero
12/05/20 2:38:56 AM
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July 19, 2001

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GTM
12/05/20 3:11:03 AM
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this is asking for the day with the most important event and not the day with the most events, right?

either way, the day WAP was released

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BlackJackCat
12/05/20 3:17:23 AM
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Honestly the crucifixion of Jesus is too stronk.

You could argue some of these have had a long lasting impact, some of which go on to a degree, but this one has been used as justification for a lot of other stuff with a profound effect on each era since.

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Steiner
12/05/20 3:40:29 AM
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the big bang

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ninkendo
12/05/20 4:15:21 AM
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Steiner posted...
the big bang

Did time exist yet or was it still forming

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ChichiriMuyo
12/05/20 4:16:21 AM
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"April 3, 33 (Jesus' Crucifixtion)"

Why are you putting made up fantasies in with actual historic dates?

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WiggumFan267
12/05/20 4:51:10 AM
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October 30, 2020

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