we will never forget when these events
happen welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten moments that made the world
stand still for this list we chose
global moments or events that are
permanently burned into our minds and
that have stood the test of time due to
their impact on world history based on a
mix of your feedback and comments if you
didn’t see something you thought should
be on here be sure to check out our
lists of the top 10 craziest events
caught on live TV another top 10
craziest events caught on camera and the
top 10 televised events number 10 the
space shuttle Challenger disaster and
liftoff liftoff of the 25th space
shuttle mission and it has cleared the
tower
with teacher Christa McAuliffe on board
and hundreds of schoolchildren watching
in real-time the Challenger launch was
to be the first of its kind what appears
to be a major catastrophe in America’s
space program challenger only seconds
after leaving the launch pad according
to nasa has exploded in midair though
CNN transmitted the sole live broadcast
news of the disasters spread like
wildfire through other networks because
the media focused on the stories human
element and tragic moments for dramatic
effect it became a hot topic for several
weeks and changed future news reporting
today is a day for mourning and
remembering Nancy and I are paying to
the core but the tragedy of the shuttle
Challenger we know we share this pain
with all of the people of our country
number nine the Munich Massacre and
we’re moving in now
on the windows behind which at this
moment eight or nine terrified living
human beings are being held prisoner
since the initial attack on the Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics by
Black September took place in the wee
hours of the morning the cameras weren’t
yet rolling
but once morning came along the media
covered the response so well that the
Palestinian terrorists already knew when
and how the German border police were
preparing to attack them it is five
o’clock this is the deadline the
storming if it is going to happen could
happen at any moment
unfortunately the Munich Massacre
resulted in the deaths of the hostages
and several others it now said that
there were 11 hostages two were killed
in their rooms thus more yesterday
morning
nine were killed at the airport tonight
they’re all gone
number eight the Tiananmen Square
protests as the Beijing student protests
turned into the Tiananmen Square
massacre the Western world witnessed
social unrest in a foreign and
unreachable location for the first time
the other TVs in China the will of the
people has been thwarted by the will of
the People’s Government though most
networks were barred from broadcasting
the violent military crackdown their
real-time reporting went on to boost
live television coverage of
international events it also influenced
Western policymakers to implement
economic sanctions and arm restrictions
on China on the streets leading down to
the main road to Tiananmen Square
furious people stared in disbelief at
the glow in the sky listening to the
sound of shots number seven the Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami after the most
powerful earthquake the country had ever
seen struck an area near Tohoku a potent
tsunami washed over Japan and killed
thousands Japanese TV networks and CNN
were there to capture this horrifying
act of nature though the continuous
footage of the destruction caused by the
deadly waters shocked the world the
coverage also encouraged a massive
worldwide relief response
the agency is warning that the tsunami
could reach between 6 and 10 meters
number 6 the assassination and funeral
of John F Kennedy the assassination of
the 35th President of the United States
assured in the age of TV news by giving
people instant access to unfolding
developments through moving pictures the
flash apparently official President
Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. Central
Standard Time
two days after JFK’s death NBC aired
continuous footage of the overnight
public viewing his funeral was then
watched by approximately 180 million on
television the next day millions later
witnessed the shooting of sniper Lee
Harvey Oswald in a real-time broadcast
as well he’s been shot he’d been shot
number 5 the fall of the Berlin Wall it
took almost 30 years for the barrier
dividing West Berlin from East Berlin to
finally be torn down following protests
and growing crowds of East German
refugees making their way to the West
the authorities were forced to open the
gates the East German government said
tonight they were going to make more
openings in the wall at least a dozen
more put bulldozers right through the
wall for the next few weeks TV audiences
worldwide watched as the Germans came
together to demolish the wall and
communism in Germany as well if there is
someone who who sleeps for 8 weeks and
you told him what happened here
he thinks you’re crazy number 4 the
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 20
minutes after the earthquake people see
in the sea I have water wave resulting
in over two hundred and thirty thousand
casualties the Sumatra and am an
earthquake is one of history’s most
fatal natural disasters the megathrust
tremor generated multiple tsunamis off
Indonesia’s western coast and affected
14 countries with the ensuing floods
while widespread media coverage of these
images shocked the world it also
triggered a massive global response in
terms of donations and relief efforts
number three the September 11th attacks
everyone remembers where they were what
they were doing and what they felt when
they heard news of the shocking al Qaeda
terrorist attacks it appears that the
there is more and more fire and smoke
enveloping the very top of the building
moments after the World Trade Center was
hit media outlets quickly picked up live
feeds that glued worldwide audiences to
their TV sets
so when another plane crashed into the
South Tower less than 20 minutes later
it was truly a moment no one will ever
forget
coverage of the tragedy and it’s
aftermath changed the way Western news
was reported globally and became the
lengthiest continuous news event to be
covered in American television it was
smoke everywhere people jumping out the
windows over there jumping out the
windows I guess because they’re trying
to see them so I don’t know
number two the Apollo 11 moon landing
party babe here landed this giant leap
for mankind’
was also a giant leap for the United
States the live television broadcast of
astronaut Neil Armstrong’s small step
for men placed America at the head of
the space race though he set foot at
10:56 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time over
500 million people around the world
experienced history in the making
thanks to the magic of television the
recorded footage took less than 1.5
seconds to reach Earth before we unveil
our number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions we the jury in the
above-entitled action find the defendant
Orenthal James Simpson not guilty of the
crime of murder in violation of Penal
Code section 187 some 60 Americans
including our fellow citizen whom you
just saw bound and blindfolded are now
beginning their sixth day of captivity
inside the US Embassy in Tehran ladies
little bit of smoke in the slaves now
and the famous crazy to the ground it’s
not quite to the mooring mast all the
Humana did all the fences be the garages
it is it is an enormous ly impressive
effort a humane effort to do to do what
is necessary to reduce this threat
against our country in that region and
to eliminate a regime that has killed
hundreds of thousands of human beings
general my number one the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone
b-29 was over Hiroshima carrying an
atomic bomb the atomic bombings of these
two Japanese cities during World War two
remains the only time nuclear weapons
were dropped during a global war
thanks to footage captured by the u.s.
War Department few will ever forget the
mushroom clouds that developed after the
little boy and fat man bombs exploded
over Hiroshima and Nagasaki everywhere
I’d passed through all the houses the
canticle were destroyed Swedish men
today the result was over 240 thousand
deaths with newsreels capturing the
aftermath things would never be the same
inside the flash burns on the chairs
give eloquent testimony on the heat of
the blast a mile from zero point which
sings the mohair upholstery like a
blowtorch do you agree with our list
what global moment made your world stand
still if you didn’t see something you
thought should be on here be sure to
check out our lists of the top 10
craziest events caught on live TV
another top 10 craziest events caught on
camera and the top 10 televised events
with more informative top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
happen welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten moments that made the world
stand still for this list we chose
global moments or events that are
permanently burned into our minds and
that have stood the test of time due to
their impact on world history based on a
mix of your feedback and comments if you
didn’t see something you thought should
be on here be sure to check out our
lists of the top 10 craziest events
caught on live TV another top 10
craziest events caught on camera and the
top 10 televised events number 10 the
space shuttle Challenger disaster and
liftoff liftoff of the 25th space
shuttle mission and it has cleared the
tower
with teacher Christa McAuliffe on board
and hundreds of schoolchildren watching
in real-time the Challenger launch was
to be the first of its kind what appears
to be a major catastrophe in America’s
space program challenger only seconds
after leaving the launch pad according
to nasa has exploded in midair though
CNN transmitted the sole live broadcast
news of the disasters spread like
wildfire through other networks because
the media focused on the stories human
element and tragic moments for dramatic
effect it became a hot topic for several
weeks and changed future news reporting
today is a day for mourning and
remembering Nancy and I are paying to
the core but the tragedy of the shuttle
Challenger we know we share this pain
with all of the people of our country
number nine the Munich Massacre and
we’re moving in now
on the windows behind which at this
moment eight or nine terrified living
human beings are being held prisoner
since the initial attack on the Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics by
Black September took place in the wee
hours of the morning the cameras weren’t
yet rolling
but once morning came along the media
covered the response so well that the
Palestinian terrorists already knew when
and how the German border police were
preparing to attack them it is five
o’clock this is the deadline the
storming if it is going to happen could
happen at any moment
unfortunately the Munich Massacre
resulted in the deaths of the hostages
and several others it now said that
there were 11 hostages two were killed
in their rooms thus more yesterday
morning
nine were killed at the airport tonight
they’re all gone
number eight the Tiananmen Square
protests as the Beijing student protests
turned into the Tiananmen Square
massacre the Western world witnessed
social unrest in a foreign and
unreachable location for the first time
the other TVs in China the will of the
people has been thwarted by the will of
the People’s Government though most
networks were barred from broadcasting
the violent military crackdown their
real-time reporting went on to boost
live television coverage of
international events it also influenced
Western policymakers to implement
economic sanctions and arm restrictions
on China on the streets leading down to
the main road to Tiananmen Square
furious people stared in disbelief at
the glow in the sky listening to the
sound of shots number seven the Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami after the most
powerful earthquake the country had ever
seen struck an area near Tohoku a potent
tsunami washed over Japan and killed
thousands Japanese TV networks and CNN
were there to capture this horrifying
act of nature though the continuous
footage of the destruction caused by the
deadly waters shocked the world the
coverage also encouraged a massive
worldwide relief response
the agency is warning that the tsunami
could reach between 6 and 10 meters
number 6 the assassination and funeral
of John F Kennedy the assassination of
the 35th President of the United States
assured in the age of TV news by giving
people instant access to unfolding
developments through moving pictures the
flash apparently official President
Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. Central
Standard Time
two days after JFK’s death NBC aired
continuous footage of the overnight
public viewing his funeral was then
watched by approximately 180 million on
television the next day millions later
witnessed the shooting of sniper Lee
Harvey Oswald in a real-time broadcast
as well he’s been shot he’d been shot
number 5 the fall of the Berlin Wall it
took almost 30 years for the barrier
dividing West Berlin from East Berlin to
finally be torn down following protests
and growing crowds of East German
refugees making their way to the West
the authorities were forced to open the
gates the East German government said
tonight they were going to make more
openings in the wall at least a dozen
more put bulldozers right through the
wall for the next few weeks TV audiences
worldwide watched as the Germans came
together to demolish the wall and
communism in Germany as well if there is
someone who who sleeps for 8 weeks and
you told him what happened here
he thinks you’re crazy number 4 the
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 20
minutes after the earthquake people see
in the sea I have water wave resulting
in over two hundred and thirty thousand
casualties the Sumatra and am an
earthquake is one of history’s most
fatal natural disasters the megathrust
tremor generated multiple tsunamis off
Indonesia’s western coast and affected
14 countries with the ensuing floods
while widespread media coverage of these
images shocked the world it also
triggered a massive global response in
terms of donations and relief efforts
number three the September 11th attacks
everyone remembers where they were what
they were doing and what they felt when
they heard news of the shocking al Qaeda
terrorist attacks it appears that the
there is more and more fire and smoke
enveloping the very top of the building
moments after the World Trade Center was
hit media outlets quickly picked up live
feeds that glued worldwide audiences to
their TV sets
so when another plane crashed into the
South Tower less than 20 minutes later
it was truly a moment no one will ever
forget
coverage of the tragedy and it’s
aftermath changed the way Western news
was reported globally and became the
lengthiest continuous news event to be
covered in American television it was
smoke everywhere people jumping out the
windows over there jumping out the
windows I guess because they’re trying
to see them so I don’t know
number two the Apollo 11 moon landing
party babe here landed this giant leap
for mankind’
was also a giant leap for the United
States the live television broadcast of
astronaut Neil Armstrong’s small step
for men placed America at the head of
the space race though he set foot at
10:56 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time over
500 million people around the world
experienced history in the making
thanks to the magic of television the
recorded footage took less than 1.5
seconds to reach Earth before we unveil
our number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions we the jury in the
above-entitled action find the defendant
Orenthal James Simpson not guilty of the
crime of murder in violation of Penal
Code section 187 some 60 Americans
including our fellow citizen whom you
just saw bound and blindfolded are now
beginning their sixth day of captivity
inside the US Embassy in Tehran ladies
little bit of smoke in the slaves now
and the famous crazy to the ground it’s
not quite to the mooring mast all the
Humana did all the fences be the garages
it is it is an enormous ly impressive
effort a humane effort to do to do what
is necessary to reduce this threat
against our country in that region and
to eliminate a regime that has killed
hundreds of thousands of human beings
general my number one the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone
b-29 was over Hiroshima carrying an
atomic bomb the atomic bombings of these
two Japanese cities during World War two
remains the only time nuclear weapons
were dropped during a global war
thanks to footage captured by the u.s.
War Department few will ever forget the
mushroom clouds that developed after the
little boy and fat man bombs exploded
over Hiroshima and Nagasaki everywhere
I’d passed through all the houses the
canticle were destroyed Swedish men
today the result was over 240 thousand
deaths with newsreels capturing the
aftermath things would never be the same
inside the flash burns on the chairs
give eloquent testimony on the heat of
the blast a mile from zero point which
sings the mohair upholstery like a
blowtorch do you agree with our list
what global moment made your world stand
still if you didn’t see something you
thought should be on here be sure to
check out our lists of the top 10
craziest events caught on live TV
another top 10 craziest events caught on
camera and the top 10 televised events
with more informative top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
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