20 Historical Events People Would Most Like to Witness
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As you get older, you’ll probably find yourself thinking about events you hope to live to see. The first flying car (expected around 2044). The colonization of Mars (2050, according to non-Musks). The first U.S. president who is a woman (about 2897, provided the United States or Earth or women still exist by then). It might be tempting to travel through time to reach these milestones, but that’s a bad idea for several reasons. You don’t have to worry about changing the timeline like if you went back in time, but think of all the exotic germs.
But what if you could go back in time? You’d have to be completely invisible, of course, limited only to observing. Physicists say even that is enough to affect the outcome of events, but let’s assume, for the purposes of this hypothetical, that everything is safe. What moment would you want to see? When user ishouldwriterightnow asked r/AskReddit, “If you could go back in time for a day to witness a historic event, which would you choose?” lots of other people answered that question, but none of them chose the invention of Hot Pockets, which is the correct answer.
![AncientSumerianGod 1y ago Assuming I have a safe vantage point on some kind of space ship, I choose the planetary impact that's believed to have given us the moon.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/1/1116881.jpg)
![1y ago VE day. What a party.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/3/1116883.jpg)
![PumpkinStriker23 1y ago Diogenes telling Alexander the great to step out of his sunlight.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/0/1116880.jpg)
![SuvenPan 1y ago A tour of Library of Alexandria before it was destroyed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/2/1116882.jpg)
![rci_ancilla 1y ago Would love to see and hear dinosaurs roaming around our land.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/9/1116879.jpg)
![disillusionedXennial 1y ago The liberation of Auschwitz. I can't image the joy (and horror) of that event](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/8/1116878.jpg)
![MarchionessofMayhem 1y ago I'd like to see Tenochtitlan before the Spanish destroyed it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/7/1116877.jpg)
![musememo 1y ago May 1st, 1851 - the opening of the Crystal Palace exhibition in London.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/6/1116876.jpg)
![ithinkoutloudtoo 1y ago I want to be in the studio for both recording sessions for Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/5/1116875.jpg)
![galvinonthewing 1y ago 30 January 1969, the Beatles playing on the roof of the Apple building in London.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/4/1116874.jpg)
![Ghost-Lumos 1y ago The premier of Beethoven's 9th symphony in Vienna](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/2/1116872.jpg)
![LeoMarius 1y ago I would love to see the debut of a Molière play at Versailles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/3/1116873.jpg)
![Duldain92 . 1y ago Queen at live aid in 1985, from the footage you can tell it was an amazing event but to be there and experience it must have been something else.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/1/1116871.jpg)
![foreveralonegirl1509 1y ago I would love to see Prague Velvet revolution in 1989. The emotions, the near freedom everyone hoped for in a near reach of their hands... It's one of few moments of history that makes me proud to be Czech.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/0/1116870.jpg)
![MythicForgeFTW 1y ago Edited 1y ago I'd go back in time to watch Neil Armstrong step on the moon on TV. It's mankind's greatest achievement, and something I wish I could've been born 4 or 5 decades earlier to see.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/9/1116869.jpg)
![tomr84 1y ago Strasbourg 1518, to witness the event where the whole town succumbed to mass hysteria and danced themselves to death over 2 months.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/8/1116868.jpg)
![. 1y ago The MLK I have a dream speech. That speech always gave me chills. I'm a 3rd grade teacher and always show it to my students to end our lessons on MLK. I show it the Friday before the MLK weekend.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/5/1116865.jpg)
![Ziquaxi 1y ago I have always wanted to go back in time to somewhere around 4500 BC and just record the languages being spoken around the world. There are entire fields of research that deconstruct proto languages of the languages we speak, but those can only go so far back and don't account for all the other languages that got abandoned over time. The only hard part would be choosing how far back in time to go, because humans have speaking languages for a very, very long time.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/4/1116864.jpg)
![comicsnerd 1y ago Edited 1y ago For a long time, the Mediterranean sea was cut off from the Atlantic ocean and the rivers flowing into it were not enough to prevent it drying up completely. At some point in time, the ocean was able to cut an opening at Gibraltar and millions of cubic meters of water poured into the basin. That, I would like to have seen.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/7/1116867.jpg)
![ZDubb31 1y ago Roswell, New Mexico, June, 1947. Let's see what really crashed out there.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/6/1116866.jpg)