Best Day in USA, ever?
August 5th, 2011 at 6:45:53 PM
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I've long believed the human mind is much more ingrained into the negative than the positive. Let's experiment, shall we? This post is the same as it's counterpart, only the opposite. Options are not supplied, as I'm too young and naive to go back into hundreds of years of history and pick examples. Feel free to post your own. Which thread will win?
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August 5th, 2011 at 6:50:39 PM
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May 17, 1954
August 5th, 2011 at 6:52:13 PM
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July 2nd, 1964?
"So as the clock ticked and the day passed, opportunity met preparation, and luck happened." - Maurice Clarett
August 5th, 2011 at 6:55:31 PM
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Quote: rdw4potusJuly 2nd, 1964?
That date was my next one
August 5th, 2011 at 7:03:19 PM
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July 20th 1969
Donald Trump is a fucking criminal
August 5th, 2011 at 7:13:43 PM
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Quote: NareedJuly 20th 1969
The day the best movie set in history was put to use?:-)
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August 5th, 2011 at 7:14:06 PM
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Bah, don't you know I don't use Google?! Guess I have to start sometime....carry on
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August 5th, 2011 at 7:37:14 PM
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Maybe V-J day. USA stood atop the world, controlled the oceans, avoided an invasion of Japan. (Despite what was posted elsewhere, Fat Man and Little Boy saved more Japanese lives than they cost.) We were pretty much the only nation with real industrial capacity at the time. The world was ours.
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August 5th, 2011 at 8:03:26 PM
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January 20, 1981 - the day Reagan took office and the Iranian hostages got released. (Also the date I first talked my then girlfriend into sex, so I tend to remember that day more fondly than most people.)
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August 5th, 2011 at 8:11:27 PM
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C'mon, nothing anybody can name tops July 4th, 1776. The day the Declaration of Independence was signed is so huge, so monumental, it dwarfs anything else. We still celebrate it and always will.
Either that or Jerry Logan's birthday..
Either that or Jerry Logan's birthday..
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August 5th, 2011 at 8:25:49 PM
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I can't decide between when the Declaration of Independence was signed/written, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the end of the Revolutionary War. Those would seem to be clearly out in front, though I wasn't around for any of them. Other contenders for the second tier:
* Louisiana Purchase
* End of War of 1812
* Amendments 13 (end of slavery), 14 (citizens' rights), 15 (end of racial discrimination in voting), and 19 (womens' suffrage)
* And...
Yeah, the world was ours, but we gave a lot of it away. It seems impossible to get more than a small portion of it back, but I'll do my little bit to try, in my own modest ways.
* Louisiana Purchase
* End of War of 1812
* Amendments 13 (end of slavery), 14 (citizens' rights), 15 (end of racial discrimination in voting), and 19 (womens' suffrage)
* And...
Quote: AZDuffmanMaybe V-J day. USA stood atop the world, controlled the oceans, avoided an invasion of Japan. (Despite what was posted elsewhere, Fat Man and Little Boy saved more Japanese lives than they cost.) We were pretty much the only nation with real industrial capacity at the time. The world was ours.
Yeah, the world was ours, but we gave a lot of it away. It seems impossible to get more than a small portion of it back, but I'll do my little bit to try, in my own modest ways.
August 5th, 2011 at 8:56:43 PM
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Quote: AZDuffmanMaybe V-J day. USA stood atop the world, controlled the oceans, avoided an invasion of Japan. (Despite what was posted elsewhere, Fat Man and Little Boy saved more Japanese lives than they cost.) We were pretty much the only nation with real industrial capacity at the time. The world was ours.
The time between then and the end of the Apollo missions, the US was AAA+ rated. It's been declining slowly ever since.
Not to worry, the UK is still relevant, despite pretty much losing it's real importance at the end 1945, and probably much before then (end of Great War, if 1066 and all that is to be believed).
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
August 5th, 2011 at 9:08:40 PM
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Quote: EvenBobC'mon, nothing anybody can name tops July 4th, 1776.
October 19, 1781. If the British don't surrender, the Declaration was just so much paper.
August 5th, 2011 at 11:03:17 PM
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Quote: AZDuffmanMaybe V-J day. USA stood atop the world, controlled the oceans, avoided an invasion of Japan. (Despite what was posted elsewhere, Fat Man and Little Boy saved more Japanese lives than they cost.) We were pretty much the only nation with real industrial capacity at the time. The world was ours.
At least half was ours...the other half belonged to Stalin. I vote for Feb. 9, 1964.
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August 5th, 2011 at 11:33:31 PM
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Quote: CalderOctober 19, 1781. If the British don't surrender, the Declaration was just so much paper.
The formation of the country shouldn't be the best day ever (just like my actual birthday isn't the best day ever for me). It's just the day that so much potential was unleashed... no more British rule, no more taxation to an king far away, so much land and possibility. The fledgling states could have screwed it all up in a matter of years (after all, the Brits did go and burn the White house 30-some years later), or dissolved over the matter of states rights (1861-1865), but it managed those teething years and rose to be the ascendant nation by 1945, and one of the two super powers, controlling so much policy and economics across the globe.
Nope, I don't think the day the US was "born" is it's best ever day. No more than 14th Oct 1066 is the best day for the English or 1st July 1867 was for the Canadians. It's what you after those events that count. So many potential states have done nothing or come to nothing or dissolved after a few decades...
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
August 6th, 2011 at 12:45:51 AM
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I'll go along with Nareed on July 20, 1969. The day of our most astounding achievement, an American 'Best Day' that the entire world can celebrate and not just us, and the one that will probably last in history books for centuries.
August 6th, 2011 at 5:05:43 AM
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Quote: avargovAt least half was ours...the other half belonged to Stalin.
I have mixed feelings about using the Moon Landing. We have to keep hearing, "They can land a man on the moon but........" :-)
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August 15th, 2011 at 6:21:26 PM
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October 31, 1967 - The day Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born (AKA Vanilla Ice)
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August 15th, 2011 at 6:28:44 PM
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While I don't think this is the #1, in terms of National relief, pride, and happiness, it's definitely up there:
April 12, 1955
April 12, 1955
August 16th, 2011 at 11:32:15 AM
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March 19, 1931 -- Gambling legalized in Nevada.
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