Changing History

[naomi24]

Something someone on television said that got me thinking. If you could change one historical event, what would it be ?

[DJHawkes]

Diana's death, she's have made a great nana, and it wouldn't have changed history so much as some stuff would

[sandyRoe]

The shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The world might have been a happier place if that hadn't happened.

[excelsior-1]

......that 9/11 did not happen

[sandyRoe]

If Diana had lived wouldn't she have been forced into a Limbo similar to that Fergie endured?

[Jeza]

We are still having wars though Sandy. It's what man has done since time began.

[Jeza]

Can you imagine Diana being called nana. I can't.

[pixie373]

I don't know, it's hard to know all the potential implications. What would yours be, Naomi?

[sandyRoe]

The Great War and its conclusion, WW11, were unlike anything before or since. There would still have been conflict but nowhere near that murderous scale.

[naomi24]

Pixie, still thinking about it - but at the moment I think the world would be a better place if Mohammed had never been born.

[Jeza]

Good answer Naomi, but if not him it would be someone else. A bit like if JC had not been born.

[boxtops]

There would have been something else similar, naomi - you can't keep a good story down.

[sandyRoe]

'And always keep a-hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse.'

[naomi24]

Boxy, speculation. The story was already there, but the facts have resulted in a different story.

[boxtops]

True, but I wouldn't blame Mohammed entirely, more the people who have twisted the information he relayed, for their own ends. Perhaps he should never have gone into that cave in the mountains....

I'd not have Hitler, if I had a choice of removing an event.

[mibn2cweus]

The most regrettable events in history were the inevitable outcome of what we've failed to learn from it. :o/

[naomi24]

//more the people who have twisted the information he relayed, for their own ends. //

Not so Boxy. He was a warmonger - no doubt about that.

I'm still pondering. So many things I'd rather hadn't happened.

[bert_h]

I'd make sure that Captain Smith on the Titanic in April 1912 decided to forget about the Blue Riband until next time, and just slowed down to make sure that he got to New York this time. A staggering number of really important and potentially influential people died that night.

[BlueToffee]

The invention of the bomb.

[weecalf]

The guy that run to marathon was it . I wish he had had the bus fare .