25 World Events That Left Us Speechless 

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Good one! There are sooo many more. Maybe a part 2

How did the 9/11 attacks not make this list? That has had a far larger impact worldwide than many of the other entries.

I just got diagnosed with COVID this morning. 5 days of isolation for me. My oldest brother died from it in 2021. 😕

My husband and I were both active duty USAF and we were working in weather support of the Challenger mission the night before takeoff. I distinctly remember our forecasters advising NASA to delay the launch. Our shift ended, we all went home to get some sleep. Grabbing food in the enlisted club all TVs were showing the launch and the explosion. Food just wasn’t important. Everyone from the shift the night before went in early to help with the demands of the investigation. The lead forecaster who advised them to hold off was sent home and needed counseling to help him get past the guilt. You’re one of the few who have even mentioned the weather factor in this tragedy, and it’s a tragedy that could have been avoided. I can’t bring myself to watch any space launches anymore. I’m always picturing the Challenger.

Okay, you asked for it! Here's a handful of my immediate thoughts. The Aberfan disaster is something that will always stay with me, even though I was a baby when it happened. My father was a volunteer with the Civil Defence and he was one of the brave souls who rushed there to dig out and "rescue" the children from the school which had been covered by a landslide of earth and rubble, a by-product of the coal mine, which was piled on a hill above the school. I have two older sisters who would have been about 8 & 10 at the time. Dad, like the others, ended up carrying out dead children, including girls of my sisters' ages. I didn't know anything about it until one day I discovered his old CD overalls. I was a young teen and looking for denim material for some reason. Don't know why but I put it on, arms and legs disappearing in the material, and I called out to him to make him laugh. He went as white as a sheet and told me to take it off. I could cut it up or throw it out, but he never wanted to see it again. Later on he apologised for being snappy with me (he didn't owe me one, I had already guessed I'd done something wrong. I apologised back, of course), then he explained it to me. One day he even drove us out that way and pointed out the rows of white gravestones. He never recovered from that, but being a typical bloke of the time, who'd seen a lot of horrors at work on the GWR during the war (and got shot at while he was in the guard's van at the back!) and his job in the steelworks, which at the time was one of the biggest in the world, all this on top of the other tragedies he'd attended in the CD, he did his best to hide his emotions. He must have suffered PTSD, but he'd have been damned if he'd admit it. I'm surprised you didn't mention the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and WWI, the first truly mechanised war. Or the misnamed "Spanish" flu that killed around 50,000,000 according to some estimates (others include higher death tolls). The break up of the Soviet Union, which could have been marked by the misunderstanding on E German TV which led to the opening of the border into W Berlin would have been definitely worth a mention! The Columbia disaster and the Apollo 1 (as it was renamed) tragedy could have been added to the Challenger one. Or of course the list of firsts in space which also brought the world to a standstill. First man, first woman, first spacewalk, first moon landing, etc, etc. There are many global events which could have taken the place of a few of your particularly USA-centric entries. They could still be connected to the USA, but had a more global appeal (like landing on the Moon versus Liberty being unveiled).

I really appreciate the fact that you research the correct pronunciation's of people & places. It lends credibility to the fact that you put a lot of work into your 'lists'. You also make me laugh...sometimes with Dad type jokes.

Grenfell tower hit home for me because I lived in a high rise at the time

I will never forget the day that I was sitting in class and were watching the launch of the Challenger Shuttle and as it exploded. I was 6 years old and it was a big deal because it had the teacher on it so normal days lessons were stopped to watch the disaster. It's something that sticks with you and can never get out of the mind. I along with almost all the other class mates cried witnessing the tragedy and it still brings a tear to my eyes to this day every time I hear something about taking me back to that day sitting in class

I was in 5th grade and my class watched the Challenger launch live at school. I will never forget the look on my teacher, Mr. Harper's face. He was absolutely stunned. He just turned the TV off and excused himself to the principles office. Poor guy

Vietnam War being shown on the news. The Gulf War may have been first with almost minute to minute action, but the Vietnam War was the first to show on TV during the news. Watergate was pretty crazy. Stock Market crash of 1929 bringing the Great Depression. Finally for a lighter note, Live Aid in 1985 with a concert starting at Wembley Stadium in London and ending in Philadelphia at JFK Stadium.

Well, since I'm 70, I've seen a lot of these... JFK's assassination - I mean, the BBC re-ran the first episode of Doctor Who the following Saturday because hardly anyone watched much of anything besides the news.

More lists like this please. Many more.

Another awesome video/list. I got goosebumps several times…definitely spot on However you missed one world event that left me speechless and changed a lot of laws…the September 11th terroist attacks…

My father was part of the first Gulf War. We were in Germany and lived on base. We didn't get any of the news coverage. But my grandmother (living in North Carolina did). She was constantly calling us to talk about what was shown on TV. Drove my mother crazy.

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Hi Mike. I hope your week goes well . Thank you for the awesome video. 😊❤😊

I watched challenger accident in my 2nd grade classroom. I did not understand why every Teacher was crying.

I am shocked the 9/11 attacks didn’t make it on to this list! I was 7 years old when that day happened. I was in 2nd grade in elementary school & remember being asked from a fellow student that did I hear about a plane flying into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. And remembered coming home that afternoon of my mom turning on one of the news channels that was replaying those haunting images from the moment United 175 flew into the South Tower to the moment when both Twin Towers collapsed.

I was at Both the Marathon and the Gunfight with the Brothers. Got a medal. It was a rough week. My colleagues at BWH told me about the pile of arms and legs. When they Sean at MIT....... When 5 ton trucks with Military come in and lock the whole place down..... Ever see the movie, The Seige? Yeah. 😢😢

Spacewalking had been happening LONG before Challenger! (22:55) The first was in 1965, by Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2, repeated a few months later by Ed White on Gemini 4. At the time, there was no word for it - newscasters referred to it as floating, swimming, or just stepping outside before settling on walking.

I was home sick from school the day of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster...I turned on the TV that afternoon and was dumbfounded by the news footage. It still affects me to this day. Then years later the Columbia disaster reminded me of that day in 1986.

9/11 it was a sad day😔 in America 🇺🇸 Chilean🇨🇱miners trapped in mines 2010

"left us speeches" Nice proofreading.

A thousand years from now, all these events will be forgotten and will have no significance to the future generations.

Thank you Mike for another great and educational video

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Mom said the first time she saw my Dad cry was when the hostages were released in '81. I watched the Challenger explode live in elementary school.

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I passed the Munich Olympics in June 1972, before this happened, when we we're in Munich back then 😢

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That thumbnail is something out of a dystopia.

The first space walk was in 1965, a Russian cosmonaut named Aleksey Leonov. The Gemini missions also conducted space walks.

Fair play for mentioning Ireland 🇮🇪 first your a gentleman 💯👍🙏

Well done on remembering the Irish famine and for explaining it simply and well. I'm proud to say I'm Irish 🇮🇪

Hi Mike one thing that is often forgotten in the story of the Iran Hostage Crisis is the part that Canada played in saving many of the US diplomatic staff from that crisis. Several of the US staff were placed as Canadian diplomats with passports etc, Eventually they were smuggled out with Canadian staffers which made the US media recognize Canada and our politics for the first time, it was due to the US media covering the 1980 Canadian federal election that we here in western Canada learned that our votes don't matter because P.E. Trudeau was declared the winner before polls had even closed in the western provinces. That is the genesis of the western alienation and separatism movement which has only grown under the son's tenure after having receded in the years between when Pierre E. Trudeau resigned and now.

6:27 I found out stuff about the Suez Canal crisis and it turned out to be a political one. The workers in the area deliberately lowered the water level because Britain and Egypt got into an argument over some price payment and according to the rumour, it was done out of spite, but according to what I looked up, the workers drained the place because they were working in the area and they ''forgot'' to raise the level because ''something didn't work and there was lack of communication''....and yet, it happened twice.

The fall of the wall of Berlin is the one I remember the most

What about the Chilean Miners being trapped and rescued or the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tidal wave causing a nuclear power plant to fail

BABY JESSICA should have had a place here!!! Maybe you should do a part 2!!!

Siege at Waco? Jonestown? Freakin 9/11?

Idi Amin and his reign of terror in Uganda during the 70s.

thanks for sharing here, there is a few that I didn't know about. I thought Covid would have been number 1, since it has changed the world forever

What? The death of Princess Diana wasn't on the list,? 😮 The world stud still watching young prince Harry and his brother William walk behind there layd mums coffin.

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Mike, you have at least one cat fan.

I am "Speeches" but not speechless.

I think you miss spelled speechless in the title but as always loved the video

My Step Dad was a Marine in Desert Storm, when I was young.

Mike, dude, you never mentioned September 11, one of the most, if not _the_ most, catastrophic day in American, not to mention world, history... The attack was horrendous, and I was 13 and in the middle of class when it happened, saw it on a tv my teacher brought in and hooked up... I was pretty scared then... 🥺😰 Where were you on that fateful day?? 😖

The Potato Famine is why my mother's family is here in the US. Hi, Clary kin! Closer to me, living in central Ohio, was the 1974 Xenia tornado, as I was in school at the time. And another, more recent example is 9/11. I flew on one of the last flights into my home airport after visiting a friend at 3AM. My wife complained loudly that I should have stayed another day, and then flown in. She's extremely happy that I didn't do that. I called my best friend, who worked as a consultant for the DOD after I watched the second plane hit, after the friend that I had just flown home from called me, telling me about the first plane strike. My best friend now knew and let everybody else in the office know what happened, which meant that some generals learned what happened because I told him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My wife and I had lunch at our favorite spot, watching the news as it unfolded.

I was 16 when the challenger exploded. It was terrible.

The Suez Canal crisis indirectly lead to the canal losing trade, especially after the warfare in the middle East during the sixties and seventies, because after these events larger cargo ships began to be built, bypassing the canal. Today only trade destine for the local area or cruise ships use the canal. More international trade is sent around the South Africa, than goes through the canal.

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There are a thousand events in history that are far more consequential than this list.

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I remember the eruption of my St. Helens in 1980

#4 was very sad, but all I could see was you wearing Disney ears. Accidentally you! 18:25

The Vietnam war superceded desert storm in the TV viewing of war

Here's some you missed. JFK's assassination, Pearl Harbor, the landing on the moon, and 9/11/01, to name a few.

Where did they leave your speeches??

Mike, Wednesday is the one anniversary of Respect For Marriage Act passage & can you do a 25 list of what lead to the passage of Respect For Marriage Act. Especially, with Roe v Wade, Voting Rights Act & American version of Apartheid like the one in South Africa plus with Pulse Nightclub schooting also helped in historical referencing with the passage of RFMA; Mike. Can you do a quick video on Respect For Marriage Act as a 25 list of Events that lead up to that bill being passed though.

Bonus fact you might not have known! Lethal Weapon 1&2 helped contribute to the end of Apartheid 😊

I'm surprised that Chernobyl wasn't in this list tbh

I think the thumb nail is supposed to say "spee hless"

It was Vostok 1 , Sputnik was the satellite .

I think it would be cool to learn Morse Code!

No information about the fall of the Berlin wall

I am surprised that 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor didn't make the list.

How tall was the guy in the photo at 4:45?

Canada beat Russia in hockey (known as the summit series) eight years before the miracle on ice.

How about man walking on the moon?!

Not sure if I'm commenting on right video, but it's on the paradox... so if the moon was closer back I the day, of biblical times, and before, did the gravitational pull have a greater effect on the paranormal that was more active than today?

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Well I got the new COVID strain or something I have to spit out for a while I only had 3 days of bad and then next day I was feeling better. And I don't know why

Covid didn't make us speechless lol?

The last invention released who what volunteer couldn't help but make the cut?

hey man the title says speeches lol

Kuwait asked for help thats why we moved in to help them.

That cave rescue cost a rescuer his life, right Mike? 9/11 of course, could've made the list.

Boston Marathon Bombing They made movie of it Based ON Real life events

1:18 The Irish Potato Famine I saw stuff about this recently. Yes, this happened on purpose, because of the blockaid in the region, because the farmers protested against the high prices and wouldn't cooperate and wouldn't work. The British Government in response created a block aid in the area that lasted for a few weeks,and then sent in the guard to brutally slaughter anyone who disagreed...and the worst part is, the folk created songs out of this that ended up in our nursery rhymes. I am not surprised the British government didn't do anything, since they caused it.

I was born just after Sputnik was launched and thereby was born after the Space Race began.

September 11th 2001

I've been watching you for quite a while and been meaning to ask why don't we see Tristan or hear him anymore you. Seem as if you were great friends

I never understood why so many people died in the, "Potato Famine" Ireland is island, in the Atlantic ocean, why not take fishing?

Felt like an advertisement for pro American achievements at times.

It could just be me making connections where there aren’t any, but is it me or is September a bad month for history?

At the time of this comment, I've had COVID-19 twice

There were speeches after. Why didn't you show them? Click bait!😂

The word "fact" is obviously thrown around way too much here as well

Speechless?

Speeches?

Um...9/11? Why Not on the list?

How do you not add 9-11....?

I think you need to take this down and reedit it....'left us speeches', 'or 'left us speechless'? 🤔🤔😆😆😆

Do you mean speechless

Umm…9/11? It was so globally impactful, that random generators suddenly became much less random. That much energy generated from people’s grief, fear and dismay, focussed on one thing was able to affect these devices! Imagine if the world focussed their energy on something globally positive?

Scores in hockey are called goals,not points…writers should do better (from a published author 😊)

18 uk has always been a soft power war costs to much money normaly a quiert word in sombodys ear will get what we want