# If you could travel in time to see a single event on a single day in a single place: where and when? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960 "2012-02-25T15:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960/61 "2012-02-28T00:44:22Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I’d love to witness The Big Bang. Not sure where I’d stand to view it, though. Canonically, the Big Bang Burger Bar. > [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > \*Hmmm. . . I was tempted to say “hanged,” since it is an execution, but a cursory glance at my M-W indicates that that past tense is only for hanging by the neck. “Bart! They said you was hung!” “And they were RIGHT!” ---
**Author:** ![Dusty\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dusty\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty_Rose)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960/62 "2012-02-28T01:06:59Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > “That’s one small step for a man, one giant HOLY MUTHAFALUTIN BEJEEZUS…” Oh my GOD this made me laugh!! While I’m tempted to say that I’d like to witness the sinking of the Titanic, if I could only pick one, I’d like to be in the Ramsey house Dec 26, 1996 to see what really happened to Jon Benet. I’ve followed the case since the beginning, and there are so many oddities to it… I’d like to know exactly what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960/63 "2012-02-28T01:15:00Z")
> [@Kataskopo](#): > > I’m not sure if it was a true event, but the talk that happened between the Pope and Genghis Khan. > And of course a translator. > > Because if Age of Empires 2 is somewhat correct, that made Genghis stop his invasion to europe and go back to Asia. You sure you’re not thinking of Atilla the Hun and [Pope Leo I](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I#Leo_and_Attila)? What stopped Genghis Khan’s invasion was his timely death. Since we can choose any time, any place, then I choose a billion A.D. Any location will do. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960/64 "2012-02-28T04:24:26Z")
Some things of monumental importance happen gradually, so I’d like to be in England sometime around 1400 or so. Feudalism went into decline because the Black Death made labor a hot commodity, along with changes in trade and the eventual Peasant’s Revolt. The 99% rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960/65 "2012-02-28T04:30:53Z")
I would love to see my own birth. Since I was adopted nobody I know was in the room. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-in-time-to-see-a-single-event-on-a-single-day-in-a-single-place-where-and-when/613960.md?page=3)