Films and Videos of Historic Events

[Ivan Seeking]

With the signing of the Health Care Bill, I thought it might be interesting to post a few similar moments in history. Please post only videos that have historic significance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=334IO43A__k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZijG4WSOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2GdOxz3s0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgthakFtZQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-weBUzQleo

 

[MotoH]

The Battle of Tarawa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jJjpk_-bc

 

[zomgwtf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpAh4rqTv4

Actually:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJO9NY8YsdA

Links fixed: Ivan
The YOUTUBE delimiters must be all caps.

 

[rootX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQqDqOx3KY

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Mount St. Helens - 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRnVhbfIKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njV9ski1gB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gpnu-fdUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mgyCuLOlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee9CPox93OQ

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Part 1 of 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsGFFBXLMk

 

[Astronuc]

Neil Armstrong steps on moon 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSPF7ujsdw

 

[George Jones]

The fifth Solvay conference was a historic physics conference on the foundations of quantum theory. Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees ended up as Nobel Prize winners. Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and Dirac all attended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZdZUouzBY

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkd8ObhN_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDmAxdLvdQ4

 

[MotoH]

The human race sure has advanced a long way within 500 years.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Note the photo of Hannah Stilley Gorby, who was ~30 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed, in 1776. Apparently her birth date preceeds that of anyone else ever photographed.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Stilley_Gorby.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOAzNYVvaNc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7Sg41Bp-U