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Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
WW1 ending
WW2 ending
The moon landing
Dr. King's I have a dream speech

Looking back on the past 100 and some years (1900-1999), what would you say was the most important historical event from that century?

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phobo
Aug 7, 2008
My back hurts today.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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1999 - founding of the Something Awful Internet Comedy Website and Forums

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

JFK's assassination

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
the rape of don king

banme
Apr 23, 2008
9/11 and bush's direct involvement in it

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



assassination of archduke ferdinand

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

fourteen hundred posted:

9/11 and bush's direct involvement in it

That was 2001, dingus.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
i discovered beating it circa 1994 i think, or thereabouts. was a pivotal moment that changed things forever

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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September 29 1996: The official North American release of the Nintendo 64

Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
In 6th grade we stopped class to watch the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial. So that.

banme
Apr 23, 2008

Hector Beerlioz posted:

That was 2001, dingus.

I cant count

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
9/11

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

banme
Apr 23, 2008

yea i still agree with this guy

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

You fuckin moran and anyone who quoted you

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
whats wrong

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Orkin Mang posted:

whats wrong
9/11 was in the 21st century, you silly billy goat!

also my answer is still the assassination of JFK

banme
Apr 23, 2008
it would have had to have been aliens at roswell, OP. because that affected all timelines.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

symbolic posted:

9/11 was in the 21st century, you silly billy goat!

also my answer is still the assassination of JFK

oh haha, seems ur assuming that im talking about the american 911, which indeed did hapen in the 21st century, precisely in 2001 infact. no, im refering to the 1973 chilean coupdetat!. i shouldhaave been more specific, im a bit of ahistory buff u know and weird in that way.

banme
Apr 23, 2008

posted:

also my answer is still aliens

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Orkin Mang posted:

oh haha, seems ur assuming that im talking about the american 911, which indeed did hapen in the 21st century, precisely in 2001 infact. no, im refering to the 1973 chilean coupdetat!. i shouldhaave been more specific, im a bit of ahistory buff u know and weird in that way.
you need to specify you silly sally!

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


The successful creation of superhitler in a Brazilian lab in 1998.

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
November 15, 1962. A baby was born who would eventually become the Goon known as Genesplicer. After that he would conquer the known world.

banme
Apr 23, 2008

genesplicer posted:

November 15, 1962. A baby was born who would eventually become the Goon known as Genesplicer. After that he would conquer the known world.

you're old. how do you even type?

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Franz Ferdinand taking two in the hat.

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011
The Manhattan Project/The Trinity Test/Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

First time the world we realized we really could gently caress ourselves over and destroy humanity.

Runner up: Cuban Missile crisis

Consolation prize: Manufacture/Demonstration of the semiconductor

Robbie Fowler fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Nov 30, 2015

Caeks
Dec 27, 2009

Definitely has to be either Albert Einstein's theories or, in turn, the creation of a successful Atomic Bomb.

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

genesplicer posted:

November 15, 1962. A baby was born who would eventually become the Goon known as Genesplicer. After that he would conquer the known world.
You're so old you got an avatar about how old you are when Family Guy was still popular on SA.

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
The iowa chop was served

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

yeah in hindsight it's lookin more and more like it's gonna be the development and mass production of nuclear weapons :getin:

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
My birth

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

fourteen hundred posted:

you're old. how do you even type?

Well, I use the worn-out stumps that once were my fingers.

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Hector Beerlioz posted:

WW1 ending
WW2 ending
The moon landing
Dr. King's I have a dream speech

Looking back on the past 100 and some years (1900-1999), what would you say was the most important historical event from that century?

Lol why did you pick Dr. King's most boring speech?

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
its the development of the atomic bomb and everything else is catagorically wrong

developing nuclear power is a milestone in all of human history


e: Cuban missile crisis is a close second but doesn't happen without the first

lmao at 9/11 holy poo poo

I.C.
Jun 10, 2008

Chips.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Lol why did you pick Dr. King's most boring speech?
it's also his most remembered and influential

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Lot of decent answers ITT, franz fernidad's "take me out" leading to the Great War, Einsteins theory of relativity, the 9/11 coup and subsequent rise of the neoliberal fascist Pinnocio, the fall of the soup nazi, the Bolshevik Revolution

Lot of great runner ups but I think we should be honest that it was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

symbolic posted:

it's also his most remembered and influential

Um you mean the most frequently taught because it was the least radical and frightening to white people

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symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Um you mean the most frequently taught because it was the least radical and frightening to white people
white people suck anyways imo

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