Change one event in history... what is it?

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The_Valeyard wrote: »

Maybe someone has already done this and we are now living in a much darker dystopian timeline.

diomed

On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.

If ever there was a case for the postman to feck a letter in the ditch this is it.

ED E wrote: »

Hiroshima contributed to the end of the war, if you prevented it who's to say many times more Japanese would have died under weeks of conventional bombing.

The Russians were advancing so fast through Japanese occupied China and Korea they had to air drop fuel for their tanks. It's comparable to the German invasion of Poland. You know with Russia kicking in the back door and it's game over.

It's pretty much why North Korea exists today.

The destruction of the Library of Alexandria.

clairewithani

3 for me

July 1st 2003
February 24th 2007
February 28th 2010

Any one or all 3

Ol' Donie

The day yer fella out of Coldplay met...the other fellas from Coldplay.

new splinter group

talking hitler out of his suicide

peckerhead

The birth of Christ.

LordSutch

Re modern day events, If I could change one event in history it would be to change Blair's mind to act on the spurious WMD/Bad decision to join George Bush in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

This decision open up a real can of worms + the removal of Gaddafi.
Two murderous tyrants who kept their respective tribes contained.

peckerhead wrote: »

The birth of Christ.

We would all be roman pagans. I am pagan myself still not sure it would be much better. I could be wrong though.

keano_afc

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Religion

There's always one. Someone give him a thank so he doesnt feel like he completely wasted his time.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The destruction of the Library of Alexandria.

Good one Which time though? Manuscripts were probably burned in stages over eight centuries.

This Fat Girl Runs

My own birth. So it never happened.

peckerhead

Ah here.

Persephone kindness wrote: »

Good one Which time though? Manuscripts were probably burned in stages over eight centuries.

ALL of them.

Though if it was just one event then maybe the most recent one because the earlier works would not have survived later fires. Would that Turkish library still be in place in Anthony hadn't donated it to Egypt ?

I wish my mom had married someone different.

silverharp

kind of silly to want to change any major history before you were born because you would cease to exist most likely

silverharp wrote: »

kind of silly to want to change any major history before you were born because you would cease to exist most likely

Nothingness is nothing to fear.

True though ..we have not though this through ..:D

Abolition of rates

Hotblack Desiato

When the British commuted de Valera's death penalty.

jeanjolie

Persephone kindness wrote: »

I wish my mom had married someone different.

What happened? Kindly explain to us your situation

RiderOnTheStorm

If I could change one event in my timeline, I would have changed jobs years earlier and not stuck with a soul sucking unrewarding unfulfilling one, just because it paid the bills. MUCH happier in my current job (even at half the prev wages!)

As for the Hitler option, read the Stephen Fry novel on exact same subject (time travel prevents Hitlers birth) and a bigger (smarter) tyrant fills the gap and Germany win WW2.

clairewithani wrote: »

3 for me

July 1st 2003
February 24th 2007
February 28th 2010

Any one or all 3

Whole heartedly agree with this.

the_pen_turner

clairewithani wrote: »

3 for me

July 1st 2003
February 24th 2007
February 28th 2010

Any one or all 3

What happened on those Day's

the_pen_turner wrote: »

What happened on those Day's

Those were the day's they proposed, voted on and confirmed that apostrophe's were allowed to be included in plural's.

keano_afc

Roe v Wade. Start of the biggest holocaust in human history.

mackeire

Your Face wrote: »

That cold winters night all those years ago.

Was it a Tuesday in Stoke?

Hotblack Desiato

keano_afc wrote: »

Roe v Wade. Start of the biggest holocaust in human history.

Inconvenient fact - Abortions have been carried out for thousands of years.Long before the United States or its Supreme Court were ever thought of.

I'd go back to the time Natasha Bedingfield first auditioned for a record company and tell her, naaaaaaa, it's not for you. And saved the world from "read some Shelley, Byron and Keats, recited over a Hip Hop Beat".