Top 10 World Events That Left Us Speechless

These events made the world stand still. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most shocking global events since the 1970s that, for good or for ill, left the entire world stunned. Our countdown of world events that left us speechless includes Hurricane Katrina, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and more! Modern history is filled with world-stopping moments. Did we trip up and leave any off the list? Let us know in the comments below.
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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your content rocks🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@DragonKazooie89]

Where are the tsunamis?

[@murielslack8372]

Three things I will never forget: The Challenger Tragedy cuz I was in my 4th grade class watching as it happened; The demise of princess Diana cuz it happened ony birthday; and 9/11, I was half asleep listening to the news and thought I was dreaming.

[@andrewsmith74]

@@DragonKazooie89 Yes, 2004 in SE Asia & 2011 in Japan.

[@andrewsmith74]

You didn't include anything from Asia - Tiananmen Square, the 2004 & 2011 tsunamis or the Mumbai massacres.

[@cassandrakarpinski9416]

This video could have been filled with stuff from this century alone, and it STILL wouldn't have been enough to cover everything. This needs to be a top 20 or even a top 100

[@lennymccartney1]

or even this year alone!"

[@fd5927]

SADLY... I agree 😢

[@carolweiss514]

Agreed

[@tamaravanhees1749]

2002 Bali Bombings & 2004 Tsunami

[@fd5927]

​@tamaravanhees1749 And also the Earthquake in Turkey and border of Syria 2023...

[@The_Weirdstar]

I would have put the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami) Leaving Devastation through many countries and leaving over 200,000 dead

[@neozeon2567]

The media suddenly stop talking about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake just a few weeks later

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

So would I and also Chernobyl

[@sammolder4958]

over 250 thound deaths nd no mention? Cmon @WachtMojo

[@mmusimapheto2924]

Agree 💯

[@geovani149]

Asia's problems are not world's problem

[@TCWRebelsResistanceWords]

I knew 9/11 would be number 1. Every year I always watch over a dozen documentaries over a couple days to honor those people who died and no matter how many times I watch those planes crashing or those buildings collapsing I can NEVER resist reacting as if I’m watching it for the first time ever. Some things never stop being truly horrible

[@calzstevenson7017]

Those people died because Bush Jr refused to payback the billions loaned to Bush Sr by the Bin Laden family, your country is built on corruption hence the massive fear you have as a collective of people.

[@christopherwetherspoon5844]

Yea it’s probably the most shocking live event in the last century.

[@mohsinrasul8450]

Inside job

[@CraftAero]

@@christopherwetherspoon5844 It's the "new" Pearl Harbour.

[@SounderMom31]

The Chernobyl Disaster on 26 April 1986 should have made this list. It is considered the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear incident. It is one of only two (Fukushima being the other) nuclear energy accidents rated at seven (maximum severity) on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

[@Marciiitoo]

I feel like the Tsunami 2004 should be on this list just like the disappearance of flight MH370.

[@nvs0970]

This channel is US centric. So only white western people is considered as world

[@ATRichard]

Honorable mentions for sure, that could be a list on its own.

[@shadowmoth9158]

MH370 didn’t leave people speechless per se maybe a few months or years of it not being found but this list is about immediate shock to people… the Tenerife disaster or Lockerbie disasters would have been on this list before MH370 (both are in the top 10 most famous plane crashes in the world and both include 747s)

[@lucascollins4813]

The 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami, as well as the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear meltdown should have been included on here as well.

[@J0hnRatcliffe]

No one was left speechless by that submarine, people began making memes based on the new information released daily

[@joshhensley2396]

I still get emotional anytime 9/11 is brought up... It was the first world event that shook me to my core. I feel to this day nothing still compares to it.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

I was 4, but I sort of remember it; my mother was freaking out. Her mom and grandmother were flying that day out of Newark, one of the takeoff places for the highjackers.

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

I don’t really remember it I was younger when it remembered

[@leesashriber5097]

In my opinion, worst day ever in the United States. Not a day goes by I don't think about 9/11.🕊️🙏❤

[@Rommie26]

I cry when I think about the brave passengers who fought back on United 93

[@CanadianDude]

I was staying home from school when I saw this happen live. Almost every TV channel I switched to was showing the attacks on 9/11. Freaked my mom out.

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

How has watch mojo been able to pump out top 10 videos for all these years.

[@hitsoverhype]

by making the same videos over and over after changing one adjective in the title 💀

[@gex581990]

A lot of reused content cut up and edited lol

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Seems like a bot comment

[@Shebeast3]

they are very good at it so I think they can do it very easy now

[@shanetoulouse2697]

Hate to say it but it's true. I've noticed this more than a year ago.

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

OceanGate didn't leave me speechless! Would I go underwater in a soup can?

[@calolson9572]

I remember the JFK assassination when I was a little boy - the grief the whole country felt. But 9/11 felt like even more of a gut punch - an event the likes of which many had never seen before.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

I can also relate about the 9/11 gut punch. I was at a school in Puerto Rico when it happened. The ENTIRE classroom saw the attack. And since I was born in New York, it shocked me to the core.

[@NeM_Qc]

fore sure 9/11. I can't imagine living in a country that bombed itself to start meaningless wars

[@bakrahabibi5471]

For a good part of the world, events like that are the norms, USA being one of the reasons for them happening .

[@WilliamDearthwd]

That Family Guy ep: Road to Pilot, showed a case where Brian Griffin stopped those terrorist attempts to highjack the planes, which resulted in George Bush not lasting a second term and oddly encouraging a new Civil War.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

To this day, the 9/11 Twin Towers Attack is still one of the most worldwide shocking news to me. I was at a school in Puerto Rico when it happened & the entire classroom saw it on the TV screen. As someome who was born in New York, it shocked me to the core.

[@joshhensley2396]

I lived in Washington state and it still shook me to my core. It showed me just how fragile our security out there really is.

[@Shebeast3]

👏👏👏👏

[@Areniapixie]

I grew up in England and decided to skip school that day. Every tv channel was just footage of it all happening. Doesn’t feel like that long ago and definitely something that will stick with all of us forever 😢

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

​@@joshhensley2396Agreed. The fact that thousands, if not hundreds or millions, of innocent people died that day is the most unforgivable part of the attacks.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

​@@AreniapixieWell said... Well said.

[@batgurrl]

As a native Brooklyn, NY boomer #1 left me both devastated and speechless -WTC coverage was relentless . The rest if the list includes so many horrific events but you could easily expand it to 15 or 20 events because there were so many others that were devastating.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

I was born in Bronx. I was in Puerto Rico when it happened & I was speechless when I saw it on TV.

[@Unknown-gq4qg]

Ocean gate speechless hell no 😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

January 6th...The World stopped...& Laughed a little bit.

[@rexlumontad5644]

The world has gone mad.

[@JakeJeckyl123]

I can remember 9/11 vividly. I was 11 years old and I stayed home sick that day from school. I was turning on the TV to watch cartoons and saw the CNN Special Report. My papaw was there with me, and that man sobbed like he had lost his best friend. That was the first time I ever saw him cry. Later that day, we head the sonic boom of military planes flying over our house, as we lived close to Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio. The silence that followed that evening and over night was eerie and uncomfortable.

[@tjones2136]

The Jonestown Massacre was definitely an event that shocked the world. 😔

[@mmusimapheto2924]

Add to that WACO - David Koresh

[@logankerr8090]

hearing Kobe's death left me speechless. that day in general was a rollercoaster of emotions

[@fayeslover]

Same here. I knew that day was gonna be an omen for how the rest of the year would go.

[@alvinadam3814]

It was a cold morning in the Philippines. 4am to be exact, I had few missed calls from my dad who resides in Cali and few from my fellow Fortnite friends in LA as well. It was a heartbreaking day for me. Not a single day passes by without thinking of Kob.

[@antmaster360]

The submarine story didn’t leave anybody speechless they were making jokes about it online the very next day lol

[@NebulusDerg]

The Titan, even though it's not on here, shocked no one. In fact it brought one of the biggest meme frenzies I've ever seen

[@packnetadaija]

Wow, I remember a lot of these events. I also thought the death of Queen Elizabeth II would’ve been included too, but wow…so many events that have happened in our lives. History classes are going to be something else in the future

[@onestopviewfiles]

It would have if it meant the monarchy was finished and had a democratically elected head of state

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

Why should the whole world be affected by her death?

[@packnetadaija]

@@PerfectlyImperfect93 maybe not effected, but it definitely was an impactful moment in world history, like the other mentions have stated in more ways than 1. I mean world stopping is something where the whole world watched about it on the news, at least in my opinion.

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

@@packnetadaija 👌🏼

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

I guess it wasn't as impactful because, let's be honest here, it wasn't sudden. She reached that age that everybody expects her to gently pass away anytime now. It wasn't as shocking as it was anticipated.

[@GazGaryGazza]

Can't beleive you missed the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26/12/2004. Over 250,000 died in one of the if not THE biggest ever natural disasters of our time. Your list was far too western focused, I'm a Brit but far too many British related items on that list. There's a bigger world out there than just the west you know

[@skunkrat01]

Agree. I am absolutely shocked it's not here

[@marchealgideon7916]

That's how it works people feel the western world is the only world that matters.

[@TSierra]

The ocean is so awesome but terrifying at the same time. I don’t understand why people would still want to go that deep and explore, I prefer to be on land lol

[@rayjay1975]

You forgot the 2016 Nice attack in France, by a lorry ie a truck 84 people killed by a person running over people in a festival 😢

[@Yes_Boy]

Woah they used Ocean Gate as the thumbnail for click bait?

[@josho5314]

Well everyone was talking about it, so not really.

[@bigrudd9346]

The 2011 tsunamis in Japan was horrible. As far as the space disaster Big Bird was a possibility of being on that doomed vessel, could you imagine?

[@dynagaming2693]

I was a teenager when Katrina hit. I remember watching on TV as people were helplessly walking on the I-10 overpass, including seeing a few dead individuals that had died waiting for rescue. Still to this day, I remember this and it still gives me chills.

[@jamesmullen8147]

Love it!!

[@WatchMojo]

Glad you like it!

[@kendra.1]

I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened. Diana will always be the People’s Princess.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

I was at a school in Puerto Rico when 9/11 happened. The ENTIRE classroom saw the whole thing.

[@alexnurmagomedov]

I was walking home from school in Ireland when I heard about it😢

[@redfive5856]

People were/are speechless about Brexit? Brits on both sides of the issue can't keep quiet about it.

[@Animeguy300]

Haiti Earthquake was a shock and leads the celebrities to do a choir by singing "We Are The World"

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

They should include Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 and Bali Attack in 2002. Those were the worst days in my country's case.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Titan Sub implosion was not so a much an AH! moment, more of a Meh moment.

[@deogratiassaidi2874]

I was just having a laugh really, bad for the kid but not speechless

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

​​​@@deogratiassaidi2874I was laughing too, but I did feel sad for the kid who went along with his dad's stupidity.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

Also, the fact they controlled it with an Xbox controller is just hillariously pathetic even the guy who interviewed the CEO was facepalming and can't control his laugh

[@nerd26373]

We will always support this channel. They often produce incredible content for us to watch.

[@spartan_a1176]

No shit

[@tarikkash4282]

@@mr.mosesluz6199 That's funny dude! Watch Mojo isn't always accurate!

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Thanks bot...

[@emiliobello2538]

Missed this. More Top 10 Events that Made The World Stand Still

[@610_Chxp]

There should have been a top 20 tbh

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@barron5970]

"Left us speechless" proceeds to make a meme for it LMAOOO

[@MrMonsterJamFan]

its interesting that the 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapse is not on this list

[@MaddieJK]

My first solid memory is 9/11 (I was 4). I vividly remember seeing the 2nd tower hit and the sound my mom made. It wasn’t a scream necessarily, the only way I can describe it is the invocation of terror.

[@thenishant8888]

Please specifically mention that all your lists will include only and only western events. Because I don't see why 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Sri Lanka easter day bombings, Nepal earthquake etc are not included.

[@wendyodell356]

I knew 9-11 would be #1. I am shocked the tsunami in Japan would have made the list as well as the Sewol Ferry Tragedy of South Korea.

[@marvelfan9815]

7/7 Never forget. Glory for Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@samuelgalea7679]

That you didn’t honor the Minsk agreement ?

[@user-zf2qc5hg1l]

@@samuelgalea7679I didn’t honor! And I’m from Ukraine ! Russia country terrorist

[@honeysunday]

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@rexlumontad5644]

*thumbnail* Under the sea, under the sea! Down it is wetter! Take it from me!

[@ChibiProwl]

Horrible. Funny but horrible.😂

[@gregmeyer9595]

I always remember as a kid hearing the question “where were you when JFK was shot?”. That was of course until 9/11. Being woken up by my mother to turn on the tv and the days that followed have been burned into my memory as with most people worldwide. Working at a k-8 Catholic school at the time I remember spending the day trying to keep the kids as calm as possible, and I distinctly remember sitting in my car on a break watching a lone kindergartener play by himself, jumping around with realization how much the world was changed by that day’s events.

[@deadman03100]

The sinking “sub” didn’t leave us speechless 😂 more like calling them dumbasses

[@littlemandarren]

Even though I never experienced this events first hand rip to the people involved hopefully events like this don’t happen again

[@jayjay4spurs]

Another from the uk was the Hillsborough disaster on 15th Apr 1989, 97 people lost their lives at the football stadium that was hosting the fa cup semi final between Liverpool & Nottingham Forest. The police keep allowing fans into an already packed standing section of the football stadium which caused a huge crush & fans to spill onto the pitch, 96 people died on that day & many were left injured, the 97th person died recently.

[@flexivefowl8186]

I think we can all guess what #1 will be.

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Ww2?

[@flexivefowl8186]

@@Based_Gigachad_001no 9/11

[@goldroger5085]

​​​@@flexivefowl8186cuz it's america

[@Terrance3500]

The ocean gate gravy train keeps rolling

[@youmatteryesyou3113]

Excellent list. There should be a Part II that includes the 2004 tsunami, the 2011 tsunami, Chernobyl, Columbine, Mumbai Attacks, January 6, COVID, getting Osama bin Laden (the only positive thing I can think of), and certainly more I am forgetting.

[@mmusimapheto2924]

+ JFK assassination, David Koresh, Titanic

[@RitwikAroraKIT]

Covid should be the first item on this list.

[@thomaspiedmont]

Great video guys 👍🏼 but, why is the Thumbnail a picture of the Titan submersible when it did not even managed to get an honorable mention?

[@BurrShotHam711]

i was 16 and starting grade 11 when 9/11 happened, i remember sitting next to my best friend and both of us were watching in horror in 1st period, we didn't get told anything till 2nd period

[@Pasta-la-pizza-baby]

I love the submarine memes

[@Barricade379]

I expected Jan 6 2021 to be here. At least as a mention

[@Zola_6]

The passed 3 and half years have made me speechless ngl 😭😭

[@Shinzon23]

#7 wait, Haiti had infrastructure to begin with to be ruined by a earthquake?

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Don't be racist.

[@Shinzon23]

@scarletgoat173 I'm not being racist, I'm legitimately amazed that they actually had infrastructure, Considering what a nightmare shit show it's been for them pretty much their entire history

[@Mechdude680]

Corona: left me speechless and jobless

[@sethsevaroth]

The thumbnail shows Oceangate which definitely did not leave us speechless, so many mocking memes before and after showed how average people don't view the rich as fellow humans. Before their fates were even known, so many on social media and elsewhere were rooting for their demise.

[@skunkrat01]

How do the rich view us?

[@Cruz0881]

I remember being in the 8th grade during 9/11. I’ll never forget that day

[@jacara1981]

Brexit was hilarious. Everything that said could happen did and it was far worse than people thought. Its been a complete disaster for the UK.

[@CashelOConnolly]

All I can say to Britain leaving the E.U is you won’t be missed From a proud Irish and European guy 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@superpan218]

That OceanGate thumbnail is nothing but clickbait.

[@jayh3283]

Honorable mentions goes to that Florida Serfside condo collapse, the Kansas City Hyatt Hotel ballroom collapse, multiple plane crashes (especially ones with over 100 people onboard, and many more that I could go on and on about.

[@brodiger]

The main event I remember is Hurricane Katrina that was a really sad year. Honestly, I really shocked about what happened to the people in New Orleans. I wonder what they are doing now thankfully I wasn’t there when that happened but I still feel bad about what happened at the time and honestly I can’t stop thinking about it. also the 9/11 is one of the other memories I remember honestly it was a sad year. I can’t turn away on that one too. Honestly I wish the World Trade Center was still open then I would’ve gone inside it. I knew somebody that went inside it, and they said that it was really amazing.

[@CliveRosfield16]

Do a video like this a day before the world ends.

[@aliceangel03]

Speechless with joy for the oceangate one anyway

[@hitsoverhype]

thumbnail foul it ain’t even on the list 😭😂

[@sat_Ramee]

Change title to "Top 10 Western World Events That Left Us Speechless"

[@VinceHere98]

9/11 ruined history forever and never deserved to happen. The mistakes we made in our response to the tragedy led to America becoming a polarized mess. And I will stick by that statement for the rest of my life. If a time machine does get invented one day, I will make no hesitation to steal it to prevent that horrible event from taking place. It may sound like grand larceny, but when people realize it was me who used that time machine to saved 2,977 innocent civilians by ensuring that the September 11th plot had no chance of being carried out, and by extension, prevented most of the other bad events from taking place in the following years? I will go down as an American hero.

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Cat pfp. Cute.

[@sophieanneburd4109]

What about the Hillsborough disaster, Boxing Day tsunami or Lockerbie?

[@LPhooligan]

thumbnail was such a bait, cause seems the world was laughing at the sub event , the tiktoks were hilarious

[@Shad0wPh0enixXx]

Ocean gate left us memes tbh then speechless

[@Curvydiaries]

You forgot so much more- Arab Spring, 2003 Iraq invasion that decimated the Middle East, Syrian civil war, rise of ISIS, Covid 19, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, fall of Afghanistan to Taliban, and so much more! These may not be important for the American people, but they are significant for the rest of the world..

[@allys744]

This is a heartbreaking list, though there could be more events to add. I was confused however, since the thumbnail is the titan submersible, but I don’t remember seeing it actually on the list.

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

I was only 8 years old when 9/11 happened but I still remember seeing smoke coming from the towers on Tv. Damn.

[@Jayv2397]

Im surprised watch mojo didn’t include the danny masterson case as one selections 🤣

[@jdr2k11]

These 10 events could be used as part of a Netflix docuseries called "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

[@shockem9786]

Lol why a sea submersible meme as a thumbnail I see it all over the internet

[@slothachunk]

It's propaganda trying to get people to feel bad about some billionaire who skirted safety regulations and wound up killing himself and several others.

[@andrewgifford1007]

To be honest i was only a year old and my sister was not even a full month old when 9/11 happened but from the footage i've seen..... i have no words

[@beerstoreguy1240]

was gonna watch...tooooo much sadness in the world....gonna have a beer

[@anisezettecarey2448]

TRAGEDIES ARE A PART OF LIFE… I EXPECT THE WORST

[@karenhall4645]

The Challenger was the first big world event I remember. I was in second grade but was home sick that day and heard it on the news. I've often thought about the conversation that must have happened in my classroom that day.

[@Jiishaan]

Hurricane Katrina left USA speechless not thre world 😒

[@marchealgideon7916]

Shame how tragedy is only reported if it happens in America. Yet many tragic things happen overseas and no one blinks an eye.

[@iisan1]

How about the tsunami that hit the indian ocean in 2004 and the tham luang thai cave rescue?

[@Ratyz1]

Gotta love WatchMojo

[@andrewsmith74]

Why are all ten in N America & Europe?

[@nobreaugusto1]

Because they don’t care about Africa

[@angelasilvi9090]

RIP The People's Princesses!

[@diegofranco5760]

It’s very sad to know we lost so many lies from attacks.😔

[@O-DogKubrick]

Thank god that u didn’t mentioned the titanic sub incident. Cause they’ve been talking too much on tv about what happened.

[@justinkayce9811]

Not sure how the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/Fukushima incident didn’t make the list.

[@AJG854]

9/11 was the most terrifying experience to me and I was thousands of miles away from NYC.

[@Lemont115]

"Let not show honorable or dishonorable mentions like we used to, let's instead beg for subs another time before the end, because once or twice isn't enough throughout a 10 minute video!" - Watchmojo

[@lorneostronoff25]

January of 1986 will forever haunt me. To this day I vividly remember watching the Challenger rise into the air only to come crashing back down.

[@kristashafer93098]

My stepmom’s parents were there. They said the scene was indescribable. The crowd went from jubilant and excited to screaming in horror and terror in seconds.

[@warriorpredator128]

People forget how much World was shocked when the president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died in 1980

[@andrewsmith74]

How so? He was old & died naturally.

[@pittsburghboy9623]

Kinda surprised that the Norway youth camp shooting wasn’t on here. That was very horrific and the reasoning by the guys actions was terrifying as well

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Only problem is we neverbfound any plane wreckage in the pentagon or the field in Pennsylvania... 6 ton engines apparently disintegrated