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Post by broadstreet223 on Nov 24, 2020 10:09:47 GMT 10
I’m back! It’s been a long and busy 3 months since I was last active on this site, but now I’m going to try and stay active more. Anyways what do you think was the worst day of each of the last 12 decades? Here’s my list.
1900s: September 8th 1900 (Galveston Hurricane)
1910s: June 28th 1914 (Franz Ferdinand shot, WW1 begins)
1920s: October 29th 1929 (Stock market crashes, Great Depression begins)
1930s: September 1st 1939 (Start of WW2)
1940s: August 6th 1945 (Bomb dropped on Hiroshima)
1950s: February 3rd 1959 (The Day Music Died)
1960s: November 22nd 1963 (President JFK assassinated)
1970s: October 13th 1972 (Andes rugby team flight disaster)
1980s: December 8th 1980 (John Lennon shot)
1990s: April 19th 1995 (Oklahoma City bombing)
2000s: September 11th 2001 (9/11 Attacks)
2010s: December 14th 2012 (Sandy Hook Elementary shooting)
2020s: March 11th 2020 (Coronavirus outbreak declared a global pandemic, worldwide lockdowns begin)
Now I know that the 2020s still have a lot of time left but I just don’t see another event this stunning and devastating taking place in the next 9 years. I really hope I’m right. What are your thoughts?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 24, 2020 18:05:20 GMT 10
This is going to depend on your political ideology of course, but for the 2010s, I would be more inclined to say that the 8th November 2016 was the worst day of the decade. Even here in Australia, the amount of fear and disbelief that people had the next morning is something I'll never forget. People felt defeated. I could only imagine how it must have felt across the United States.
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Post by #Infinity on Dec 16, 2020 3:56:38 GMT 10
1910s: July 28, 1914 - Beginning of World War I.
1920s: October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday.
1939: September 1, 1939 - Invasion of Poland.
1940s: August 6, 1945 - Atomic bomb is detonated on Hiroshima, yet Japan still doesn't surrender, ensuring another bomb would be on its way.
1950s: October 4, 1957 - Sputnik is launched, causing Cold War tensions to heat up considerably.
1960s: November 22, 1963 - JFK assassination.
1970s: May 4, 1970 - Kent State shootings.
1980s: April 26, 1986 - Chernobyl meltdown.
1990s: April 29, 1992 - Policemen acquitted in Rodney King murder, sparking riots and showing just how far behind America's justice system was from where it needed to be.
2000s: September 11, 2001 - Self-explanatory.
2010s: November 8, 2016 - Unexpected election of Donald Trump.
2020s: March 11, 2020 - COVID-19 is officially a pandemic.
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Post by sman12 on Dec 17, 2020 6:12:23 GMT 10
Here are my personal picks:
1900s (September 6th, 1901): President William McKinley gets assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1910s (June 28th, 1914): Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife are assassinated by Young Bosnia member Gavrilo Princip, triggering the July Crisis (basically the allies of Austria-Hungary vs. the allies of Serbia) and therefore snowballing into World War I.
1920s (October 29th, 1929): The stock market crashed with over $14 billion lost in stocks, and the losses practically started the Great Depression.
1930s (September 1st, 1939): Nazi Germany invades Poland for territory conquest, marking the start of World War II.
1940s (December 7th, 1941): Japanese kamikaze pilots surprisingly attacked American ships and crew members at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, spurring America to involve itself with the Allies in World War II. 2,403 Americans were killed.
1950s (June 25th, 1950): North Korean military invades South Korea, marking the start of the Korean War.
1960s (November 22nd, 1963): President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
1970s (November 19th, 1978): 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult were involved in a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
1980s (April 26th, 1986): A power plant in Chernobyl was the site of a major nuclear accident, leaving hundreds of people with radiation injuries.
1990s (April 19th, 1995): 168 innocent people died from a terrorist bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City.
2000s (September 11th, 2001): Hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in a terrorist attack against the U.S. Heroic passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 stopped the terrorists from going to their targets and made the plane go down in a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 innocent people have died.
2010s (January 12th, 2010): 100,000-300,000 people died following a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
I can't do the 2020s yet since the decade basically started.
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Post by TheUser98 on Dec 31, 2020 1:22:14 GMT 10
1900s - February 8, 1904 - Japanese bombardment of the Russian Port Arthur kickstarts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910s - August 22, 1914 - The first major combat engagement of the First World War results in the deaths of over 27,000 French soldiers in just a single day. At this moment, it became apparent that this was not going to be like any war fought previously in history.
1920s - October 29, 1929 - Wall Street Crash
1930s - December 13, 1937 - Beginning of the Nanjing Massacre in China, where the Japanese Imperial Army would eventually murder more than 300,000 Chinese women and children at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1940s - June 22, 1941 - Operation Barbarossa, the axis invasion of the Soviet Union, (the largest land invasion in the history of warfare) begins.
1950s - February 3, 1959 - The Day the Music died.
1960s - November 22, 1963 - JFK's assassination.
1970s - May 4, 1970 - Kent State shooting.
1980s - December 8, 1980 - John Lennon's assassination.
1990s - April 7, 1994 - beginning of the Rwandan genocide.
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Post by Telso on Dec 31, 2020 4:00:38 GMT 10
1990s - April 7, 1994 - beginning of the Rwandan genocide. One of the most brutal and saddening events to learn about.
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Post by sman12 on Jan 7, 2021 8:28:41 GMT 10
January 6th, 2021 - The joint session of Congress that was about to certify the election results for Biden and Harris was dramatically stopped as they were interrupted by an attempted coup by Trump supporters who falsely believe that the President won the election.
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Post by Cassie on Mar 6, 2021 6:02:05 GMT 10
January 6th, 2021 - The joint session of Congress that was about to certify the election results for Biden and Harris was dramatically stopped as they were interrupted by an attempted coup by Trump supporters who falsely believe that the President won the election. Very late but I disagree entirely, March 11 2020 was way worse.
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Post by sman12 on Mar 10, 2021 2:50:09 GMT 10
January 6th, 2021 - The joint session of Congress that was about to certify the election results for Biden and Harris was dramatically stopped as they were interrupted by an attempted coup by Trump supporters who falsely believe that the President won the election. Very late but I disagree entirely, March 11 2020 was way worse. I totally understand. It was definitely a cultural turning point for the worst and arguably what started off the cultural 2020s, but the reason why I made that comment about January 6th was because it was the first time in modern history that the Capitol was breached by civilian insurgents in an attempted coup over the election. The scenes that happened were unforgettable and will definitely become one of the most talked about tragedies of the 2020s.
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Post by Cassie on Mar 10, 2021 3:56:15 GMT 10
Very late but I disagree entirely, March 11 2020 was way worse. I totally understand. It was definitely a cultural turning point for the worst and arguably what started off the cultural 2020s, but the reason why I made that comment about January 6th was because it was the first time in modern history that the Capitol was breached by civilian insurgents in an attempted coup over the election. The scenes that happened were unforgettable and will definitely become one of the most talked about tragedies of the 2020s. Yeah it's up there
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 12:01:49 GMT 10
January 6th, 2021 - The joint session of Congress that was about to certify the election results for Biden and Harris was dramatically stopped as they were interrupted by an attempted coup by Trump supporters who falsely believe that the President won the election. Very late but I disagree entirely, March 11 2020 was way worse. Um...they almost overthrew the U.S. federal government. That's way worse by miles.
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Post by Cassie on Mar 10, 2021 12:04:14 GMT 10
Very late but I disagree entirely, March 11 2020 was way worse. Um...they almost overthrew the U.S. federal government. That's way worse by miles. Yeah but March 11 was the start of a whole pandemic imo, it's when the coronavirus was actually seen as a pandemic
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