For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.
Plot twist: show up one day after
I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.
So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.
Queen at Live Aid.
That’s a great call.
Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b
English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.
Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and
phis more latiny thanv. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.
Hah that’s interesting, a lot of this wiki is quite easy to decipher as a Dutch and English speaker
Does Woodstock count?
Why shouldn’t it count?
Because it wasn’t that long ago.
Its not impossible that woodstock contributed to the wall coming down
Was a huge cultural event that wildly exceeded expectations and became a phenomenon
Then the wall came down about 4 years later
Edit: i have been fact checked and found wanting. 73 is not 83
