25 World Events That Left Us Speechless

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In this captivating video, explore 25 unforgettable world events that left us utterly speechless. From historical milestones to groundbreaking moments, join us on a journey through the impactful happenings that shaped our global narrative. From natural wonders to political turning points, this compilation promises to leave you both informed and amazed. Don't miss out on this insightful recap of the moments that resonated with people around the globe. Subscribe now for a thought-provoking experience that delves into the events that defined our world.
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Author: Jackson Oka
Music: Alpha Mission - Jimena Contreras
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - The Irish Potato Famine
1:28 - Invention of the Computer
2:12 - Operation Desert Storm
3:03 - Invention of the X-Ray
3:59 - Paris Commune
4:59 - Pulse Nightclub Shooting
5:31 - Invention of the Telegraph
6:27 - Suez Crisis
7:34 - Chibok Kidnappings
8:16 - SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
9:11 - Boston Marathon Bombing
10:12 - The Great Firewall of China
10:59 - Sputnik 1 Launch
11:41 - Iran Hostage Crisis
12:31 - Statue of Liberty Inauguration
13:15 - Nuremberg Trials
14:00 - Roe v. Wade
14:45 - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
15:55 - Rise of the Internet
16:50 - Pol Pot
17:23 - Miracle on Ice
18:19 - 1972 Munich Olympics Hostage Crisis
19:21 - Voting Rights Act
20:12 - Thai Cave Rescue
21:23 - Apartheid Era in South Africa
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[@lourias]

Your title is not spelled correctly.

[@manueltapia1859]

Mike the sad part of Pol Pot dictator regime he was never faced justice he died as free man 😮 Poor victims 😢

[@patticampana9458]

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

[@PhilParadis]

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

[@thegingergyrl455]

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

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I'm so sorry for your loss. That was a dreadful time for many. 💔 At least you probably aren't going to feel worse than if you have a lousy cold - assuming you're up to date with your boosters. I had it in January, as did my husband and son. Both hubby and I are considered to be high risk (for different reasons; we'd literally been behind closed doors for the majority of '20), but because we were fully vaccinated, we were fine within days. I truly hope you are no worse than we were. Keep drinking a lot of warm drinks!

[@tavonfenwick-yb5xv]

Sending love

[@samn6498]

I was very I'll with covid back in 2021, fortunately I eventually had all 4 vaccinations that were offered to me and earlier this year when I got covid for the second time I felt like I had a mild case of the flu. But I did find the only thing I could taste was soy sauce lol.

[@bloodrainicorn6193]

I hope you heal quickly and it’s not a horrible experience for you. So very sorry for your loss. Putting you in my heart tonight

[@randalmayeux8880]

Sorry for your loss. I caught Covid-19 very early in the pandemic, after a couple of weeks I was fine, and thinking that I really didn't need the shot since I would now have natural immunity I didn't get vaccinated. About 6 months later I was in the hospital for an issue with my back pain when my vitals showed a slight fever. I was feeling fine, but when they did a test I came up positive again. Needless to say, I got both of my shots and the booster. I've already had my shot this year, so hopefully....

[@vcorlett]

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.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

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).

[@dwirtz0116]

Kudos

[@Riverrockphotos]

He only dose 25 but he could do 100 of these. I just love it when I learn something new.

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

Add the Baby Jessica rescue to your list!

[@digitgal]

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.

[@michelleburgess557]

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

[@jasongloekler6392]

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

[@PEGGLORE]

I was also 6 years old. I am from the UK, and we obviously didn't care about it, as we did not stop any lessons for anything. My dad had recorded it on VHS though and was showing it to me, quite a few times in a row, and being like "look at this" and stuff. Didn't really know what to think about it. 1st messed up thing I can remember seeing though.

[@peterj.fallon4327]

I was 8, 2nd grade, sitting in computer class… no one said a word. Literally speechless

[@kristinahammer2757]

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

[@KitKat1965]

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.

[@ElicBehexan]

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.

[@pepshaven6520]

More lists like this please. Many more.

[@joannewilson1162]

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…

[@bunnehontherocks]

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.

[@mimimouse2810]

Stumbled across this channel on accident! ! So happy that I did !

[@dawnhall8432]

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

[@kain772]

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

[@sostitanic6102]

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.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I thought it would be the first thing mentioned!

[@northwing3416]

Next time.

[@sostitanic6102]

​@@user-vm5ud4xw6n same here. 1/2 expected 9/11 was going to be #1 on this list.

[@sostitanic6102]

@@northwing3416 I guess

[@malagastehlaate230]

@@sostitanic6102 Same...

[@kain772]

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. 😢😢

[@kain772]

Sorry. I get emotional.

[@kain772]

I am retired from Harvard University Security.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Don't apologise! Jeez, you're entitled to get upset about that! If it's still bothering you to the extent where it's interfering with your life, seek help for it. You don't have to be a direct victim, or relation of one, of a tragedy to get PTSD. And it doesn't mean you're any less of a man to admit it. In fact I have even more respect for you for saying what you did. _Never_ be sorry for being human, and especially for hurting when you have good reason to. Hold your head high and ask your doctor for a referral to a counsellor if you think it is appropriate. Holding your head up and admitting you get upset is _always_ appropriate! 🫂

[@kain772]

@@y_fam_goeglyd I'm a Veteran. Been using those services. For years.

[@lesnyk255]

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.

[@mikeburkhart8336]

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.

[@msn64man1]

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

[@catguy5425]

"left us speeches" Nice proofreading.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

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

[@bobbysfacts1981]

Thank you Mike for another great and educational video

[@krysti2]

Great job Mike!!*

[@jrstolzke]

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.

[@jeffreygeiger2406]

Hey man I just wanted to say thanks for your work. Your content has been my favorite here lately.

[@raymondmartin6737]

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

[@northwing3416]

I just commented how Isreal is at fault for the crisis like they are today

[@sarahhilton7572]

I'm really love watching this channel it's very interesting how things have changed, and I've learned some new every time. I watched this channel. I'm glad I found it KZbin channel. Thank you

[@Donker_Dank]

That thumbnail is something out of a dystopia.

[@lnspotts1]

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

[@spacebound7247]

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

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

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

[@list25]

And as I found out, so am I! Well, Irish heritage anyway. LoL

[@peterj.fallon4327]

Me too 🍻

[@lavernekeller2283]

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.

[@andeeharry]

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.

[@lunamoonspell]

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

[@chrisbrown-uu3mh]

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

[@theunspoke815]

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

[@eddietheheadful]

Siege at Waco? Jonestown? Freakin 9/11?

[@iamnother5490]

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

[@andeeharry]

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

[@csachevauxsansabri2612]

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.

[@mingfanzhang8927]

❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊

[@mingfanzhang4600]

❤😊

[@4ak458]

Mike, you have at least one cat fan.

[@4ak458]

Can't post the picture of my cat watching you.

[@GassersGhost]

I am "Speeches" but not speechless.

[@michaeljarrett281]

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

[@list25]

And fixed! Thanks

[@Atraya24]

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

[@jcfreak4ever1]

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?? 😖

[@bytehead904]

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.

[@terriehumphries6028]

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

[@julianaylor4351]

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.

[@adpink3069]

❤25

[@kamilegier4730]

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

[@mingfanzhang4600]

❤😊❤😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

❤😊

[@thunderdragon8341]

I remember the eruption of my St. Helens in 1980

[@karinroberts3047]

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

[@user-er5qu6wq5f]

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

[@pacman52280]

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

[@Sk8Bettty]

Where did they leave your speeches??

[@adamelliott7854]

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.

[@regisspeaks1497]

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

[@DJSonicScotland]

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

[@MsOldmom]

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

[@keithkearns93]

It was Vostok 1 , Sputnik was the satellite .

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I think it would be cool to learn Morse Code!

[@RobynAlford]

No information about the fall of the Berlin wall

[@orcaman8794]

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

[@pacman52280]

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

[@LordHowitzer]

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

[@user-oc8th7gc4e]

How about man walking on the moon?!

[@drumsrudy6504]

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?

[@GlobalGems66]

😮😮😮

[@noneofyourbussiness2788]

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

[@Arjalineck]

Covid didn't make us speechless lol?

[@johnharris8974]

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

[@DadOnBass]

hey man the title says speeches lol

[@denaolson1719]

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

[@bigrudd9346]

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

[@alexanderleslie3671]

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

[@andeeharry]

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.

[@julianaylor4351]

The Corn Laws which controlled cereal crop prices also added to the misery. Many people in the US, Canada, Australia and England and Scotland have Irish ancestry because of the Potato Famine. In the early nineteen century the British Government was run mostly by the landed gentry. It wasn't until the latter half of that century that industrial towns and poorer people even had a vote or MP. But the Potato Famine and the Corn Laws, along with the industrial Revolution changed British politics forever. The government itself did terrible things, but others did protest and try to help, but you need to realise that ordinary people had little political power in the UK, at that time.

[@CybeleCotter]

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

[@elultimo102]

As an eight year old on the way to swimming lessons, some older kids on the bus spoke about the satellite on the day after the launch, looking at the sky trying to see it.

[@ChadWenske]

September 11th 2001

[@angeliabrownwood9940]

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

[@transtremm]

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

[@kensmith5694]

There were issues with fishing in the era. Also the wheat crop grown in Ireland was exported to England rather than being used to feed the irish.

[@perryhunt2909]

Felt like an advertisement for pro American achievements at times.

[@mzbeth8238]

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

[@joshlunt7827]

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

[@fencefirst2722]

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

[@WeThePeople-bv9qq]

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

[@gayle74]

Speechless?

[@johnpeace971]

Speeches?

[@annettejones7777]

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

[@FutureRocketMan]

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

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

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

[@mr.turdlybird4387]

Do you mean speechless

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

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?

[@ddavis4730]

I live in Washington DC, I don’t know if that has anything to do with it but I had nightmares of going through the smoke trying to escape the fire in the Pentagon. I had the same nightmares for 4 days. It could be that they only aired the devastation for days

[@phife1878]

I'm not sure you understand energy transfer. You're describing telekinesis.

[@peterj.fallon4327]

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

[@ppercut]

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