Favorite event in history?

Question

I have to write a short essay on my favorite event in history. Well here's the thing... I don't have one! What's something interesting and easy to write about?

It can be anything really. I could write about Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream or the waffle iron being invented(which took place on Aug. 24) if I wanted to. Just so you know there's a lot of options.

Answer 1

1. guy fawkes and the gunpowder plot
2. julius caesar and the first triumvirate (or his assassination)
3. Napoleon's return from exile

that's all i can think of for now

hahaha...no greg...no special meaning
i was watching harry potter when i was answering the question and I thought of it bc the phoenix is named after him.

Answer 2

Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. That is definitely better than Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Revolt. The Gunpowder Revolt was inevitable, but not stepping on the moon.

Beatlesrock, yes I know the common referral to this 1605 event is the Gunpowder Plot. It was intented to be a revolt as Fawkes was a traitor and wanted to blow up (hence the gunpowder) Parliament which would have been the beginning of the revolt. Why is that number one on your list? Is it because there is a big party every November 5 which holds some personal, special meaning for you?

Answer 3

Interesting? And easy to write about? Hmmm....

How about Andy Jackson winning the Battle of New Orleans -- AFTER the war was already over.

He did it only with the help of a pirate Jean Lafitte.

But it made Andy a hero and probably, in the long run, made him President.

It also inspired a song that hit the top of the Billboard in 1959:

"The melody has its roots in a well-known American fiddle tune The 8th of January, which was the date of the Battle of New Orleans. Jimmy Driftwood, a school principal in Arkansas with a passion for history, set a historical account of the battle to this music in an attempt to get students interested in learning history. It worked, and Driftwood became well known in the region for his historical songs. He was "discovered" in the late 1950s by Don Warden, and eventually signed to a recording contract by RCA, for whom he recorded 12 songs in 1958, including The Battle of New Orleans." [Wikipedia]

You can't get much more "historic" than that: Win a war that's already over; make an honest man out of a criminal; make a hero (and US President) out of a country boy; make the top of the Hit Parade 145 years later; and turn a high-school history teacher named Driftwood into a famous song-writer.

Here's his song:

Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, I see'd Mars Jackson walkin down the street
talkin' to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafayette [pronounced La-feet]
He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee
and the pirate said he'd help us drive the British in the sea.

The French said Andrew, you'd better run,
for Packingham's a comin' with a bullet in his gun.
Old Hickory said he didn't give a dang,
he's gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Packingham.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we looked down the river and we see'd the British come,
and there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
while we stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
if we didn't fire a musket til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire til we see'd their faces well,
then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave a yell.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down,
so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We'll march back home but we'll never be content
till we make Old Hickory the people's President.
And every time we think about the bacon and the beans,
we'll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin,
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 4

The Red Sox winning the world series.

Answer 5

The day I was born.

Answer 6

it has not happened yet, the end of all times.