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If you could travel through time, which historical moments would you choose to witness? Join us as we explore the most awe-inspiring events from history that we wish we could have experienced firsthand! Our countdown includes Woodstock, the Moon Landing, MLK's Dream speech, and more legendary moments that changed our world forever.
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00:00Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty! We are free at last!
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking at historical moments so influential,
00:10we wish we could step back in time and see them ourselves.
00:14First set foot upon the moon, July 1969.
00:20Woodstock, 1969
00:22In 1969, a dairy farm in New York, 60 miles away from Woodstock, went down in history.
00:28For four days, it was the site of a massive music festival, with almost half a million attendants.
00:34You'll hear stars such as Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Tim Hart, Richie Havens, Rabi Shankar, and many others.
00:40Saturday, August 16th, Can't Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and The Who.
00:47Sunday, August 17th, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Santana, Jimi Hendrix.
00:52It's easily the most historically significant festival ever, and is considered the peak of 60s counterculture.
00:58There were a ton of mind-blowing performances, like Jimi Hendrix's famous closing set.
01:04There was also Santana, who was made to play when they were miles away from being sober.
01:20It was followed up by anniversaries every decade, until the disastrous Woodstock 99, making it a truly unique festival.
01:28Coronation of Elizabeth II
01:41No British monarch had a longer reign than Queen Elizabeth II.
01:46This hindsight makes her 1953 coronation all the more historically significant.
01:51Now follows the supreme climax of the ancient ritual.
01:56With St. Edward's Crown, the Crown of England, the Archbishop performs the simple, yet the most significant ceremony of the Queen's coronation.
02:04Famously, she was crowned Queen sooner than expected, as her father, George VI, endured an early death.
02:10This meant she was only 25 when she took the throne.
02:13It was also noteworthy for being televised, and cost an incredible sum of money to organise.
02:18We have a new sovereign, young, and a woman.
02:22Let us give her a coronation that is befitting of the wind of change that she represents.
02:30Modern and forward-looking, at a moment in time where exciting technological developments are making things possible we never dreamt of.
02:38In today's money, it would cost at least $70 million.
02:42Surprisingly, that's still roughly $25 million less than King Charles III's coronation.
02:47This means it would have easily been one of the 21st century's fanciest events.
03:00Justinian's opening of the Hagia Sophia
03:03Few buildings in the world are as remarkable as the Hagia Sophia.
03:07It sits in present-day Istanbul, but was originally built in Constantinople, when it was the capital of the Roman Empire.
03:14It was constructed by Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537.
03:21Situated on a hill overlooking the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus,
03:24Hagia Sophia has gone through various transformations since it was built in what is now Istanbul in 537,
03:30and it remains one of the most important monuments of the world.
03:34It then stood as the world's largest cathedral throughout the entire medieval era, until 1520.
03:40While you can still see it today, its original opening ceremony was an event for the ages.
03:45In 537, Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora unveiled their church to the world.
03:54All who enter are awed by its size and the richness of its decorations.
04:00The name means holy wisdom, so it wasn't dedicated to a singular person, but instead to their god's intellect.
04:07It became the heart of the medieval Christian world.
04:10When it opened, Justinian supposedly declared that he had outdone Solomon.
04:15Whose desire was to build the largest church of his time.
04:18According to oral tradition, after its completion, he exclaimed,
04:22Solomon, I have surpassed you, referring to the first temple built by King Solomon.
04:26Hernán Cortés meeting Moctezuma II, the Aztec Empire was incredibly diverse,
04:33made up of a plethora of cultures and people in the Valley of Mexico.
04:38In reality, theirs was a civilization of centralized city-states with impressive levels of development.
04:43After all, Tenochtitlan was just one shining jewel among many.
04:48It's hard to wrap my head around what a sight this all must have been to behold.
04:51At its heart was Tenochtitlan, a stunning city that sat upon Lake Texcoco,
04:57which has since been drained to make way for Mexico City.
05:00The empire fell when the Spanish empire led by Hernán Cortés arrived and invaded.
05:06After what appeared to be the start of an amicable relationship,
05:09Cortés imprisoned Moctezuma in an attempt to gain control of the city and its riches.
05:15The expedition would be horrific to relive in its entirety,
05:19but seeing the moment where the two cultures met would be mind-blowing.
05:23You would get to see the awe on the conquistadors' faces when they see the stunning Aztec capital.
05:29Also, you'd get to see it yourself, something which has been impossible for just over 500 years.
05:35This epic clash is visible to this day in Mexico City and elsewhere,
05:39not just through its historic ruins,
05:41but also its unique blend of Aztec and Spanish art, culture and traditions.
05:46MLK Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech
05:50If you ask people what the most famous speech in history was,
05:53the chances are high they'll say it was this one.
05:56I have a dream
05:57that one day
05:59this nation will rise up
06:03and live out the true meaning of its creeds.
06:08We hold these truths to be self-evident
06:11that all men are created each other.
06:14On August 28, 1963, thousands of Americans marched on Washington,
06:20advocating for the civil rights movement.
06:22Roughly 250,000 people attended,
06:25including the leader of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr.
06:28This will be the day when all of God's children
06:31be able to sing with new meaning
06:34My country tears of thee
06:36Sweet land of liberty of thee I sing
06:40He famously proclaimed he had a dream
06:43in front of the Lincoln Memorial,
06:45a dream of an America
06:46where they are all truly equal.
06:48In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed
06:51and a year later,
06:52so was the Voting Rights Act,
06:54which gave people of all races a vote in America.
06:57Both the speech and the March on Washington
07:00were credited with helping secure the passage
07:02of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
07:06a landmark piece of legislation
07:07that ended segregation
07:09and banned discrimination on the basis of race
07:11or sex in the workplace.
07:14Hamlet's premiere
07:14It's unclear when exactly Hamlet first premiered,
07:18but we know it was written between 1599 and 1601.
07:22To be or not to be,
07:25that is the question.
07:27Whether tis nobler in the mind
07:31to suffer the slings and arrows
07:34of outrageous fortune.
07:37We know from the 1603 first quarto
07:40that it had already been played in London, though.
07:43While it wasn't his most famous play
07:45during his lifetime,
07:46in the centuries since,
07:47it's become one of humanity's
07:49most culturally significant plays.
07:51Alas, poor Yorick.
07:54I knew him, Horatio.
07:55This means it would be a phenomenal experience
07:59to watch it performed
08:00at the Globe Theatre,
08:01with the cast Shakespeare personally selected.
08:04Romeo and Juliet is another
08:05we'd adore seeing the premiere of,
08:07but Hamlet is longer,
08:09so it's more bang for your buck.
08:10The Beatles at Shea Stadium
08:23Really, seeing the Beatles live at any point in their career
08:26would be a remarkable experience.
08:29Out of all their shows,
08:30we'd most like to see their Shea Stadium performance.
08:33In 1965, the world was at the peak of Beatlemania.
08:37This was their second of three American tours
08:40before they gave up on performing live in 1966.
08:48This show had over 55,000 people watching,
08:51making it the busiest concert of their career.
08:54Thankfully, it was recorded and released
08:55as a documentary in 1966,
08:58but that's not the same as seeing it for real.
09:00Help me and nothing's up on the ground
09:04Won't you please help me?
09:09Apollo 11 moon landing
09:11Humanity can only land on the moon
09:13for the first time once.
09:14If all goes well,
09:16Apollo 11 astronauts, Armstrong,
09:18Aldrin and Collins
09:19are to lift off from pad 39A out there
09:23on the voyage man always has dreamed about.
09:26That moment came in 1969,
09:28when Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
09:30and Michael Collins
09:31made the historic journey
09:33to our most famous satellite.
09:35The dream of visiting the moon
09:36is one shared by millions,
09:38but only 12 people have been.
09:40It would be an unfathomably profound experience
09:43to join the astronauts
09:44at their famous moon landing.
09:46Anglady Bay, here.
09:48The angle has landed.
09:49Failing that,
09:50just seeing it live on television
09:52would be a moment to remember forever.
09:54Maybe in the future,
09:55there'll be more exciting moments
09:57for lunar exploration.
09:58None of them could match
09:59the significance of Apollo 11, though.
10:02That's one small step for man,
10:05one giant leap for mankind.
10:10The Crystal Palace Exhibition
10:12Also called the Great Exhibition,
10:14as the name suggests,
10:15it was one of the most exciting events
10:17of the 19th century.
10:18Its grandeur does not consist in one thing,
10:21but in the unique assemblage of all things.
10:24Whatever human industry has created,
10:26you find there.
10:27It seems as if only magic
10:28could have gathered this massive wealth
10:30from all the ends of the earth,
10:32end quote.
10:33So wrote Charlotte Bronte in 1851.
10:35It was a massive international exhibition
10:37held in Hyde Park, London,
10:39during the summer of 1851.
10:41Tons of huge figures attended,
10:43like Charles Darwin,
10:45Karl Marx,
10:45Charles Dickens and many others.
10:47Over 6 million people visited,
10:50which earned it roughly ÂŁ186,000,
10:53which is almost ÂŁ30 million today.
10:55I think it was an expression
10:57of the age of utilitarianism,
10:58the idea that human effort
11:00ought to be organised
11:02for the improvement of mankind.
11:05And I think both visually
11:06and in terms of the contents
11:07of the exhibition,
11:09it very much fulfilled that purpose.
11:10It was held in the Crystal Palace,
11:12a grand building designed
11:13specifically for the exhibition.
11:15It was three times the size
11:16of St Paul's Cathedral
11:17and remained standing
11:19until it unfortunately burnt down
11:21in 1936.
11:22Some people would have bought
11:23a season ticket
11:24and came back time and again.
11:27Before we unveil our top pick,
11:29here are a few honourable mentions.
11:31Live Aid.
11:31Few concerts can match
11:32the significance of Live Aid.
11:34Building of Stonehenge.
11:46Seeing how they built this monument
11:48would have been astounding.
11:50Why was Stonehenge built
11:52in South West England 5,000 years ago?
11:54And what was it used for?
11:56Oedipus Rex's premier.
11:58Who wouldn't love to see a play
11:59performed in ancient Greece?
12:00And then that play,
12:02that Oedipus thing?
12:04Man, I thought I had problems.
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12:23Touring the Seven Ancient Wonders
12:24Only one of these wonders
12:26still exists today,
12:28and that's the Great Pyramids of Giza.
12:30The other six were scattered
12:31from Greece to Babylon.
12:32The Great Pyramid of Giza,
12:35the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
12:36the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
12:38the Statue of Zeus at Olympia,
12:41the Mausoleum at Helicarnassus,
12:43the Colossus of Rhodes,
12:45and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
12:47The window where they all existed
12:48simultaneously is surprisingly small.
12:51This would be some time
12:52between the construction
12:53of the Colossus of Rhodes in 280 BC
12:55and its destruction
12:57in approximately 225 BC.
13:00If it were possible
13:01to return to this century,
13:03words wouldn't be able
13:04to describe how incredible
13:05seeing all seven would be.
13:07The seven wonders
13:08of the ancient world
13:10are perhaps the greatest examples
13:12of such lost beauty.
13:14Not only for the wonders,
13:15but also for the ancient cultures
13:17and civilizations you'd get to explore.
13:20It would be a world
13:21where the reign of Alexander the Great
13:23is fresh in people's memories
13:24and the Roman Empire
13:25is centuries away
13:26from dominating Europe.
13:28Plans for the city's layout
13:30were drawn up
13:31in the latest Hellenistic grid style
13:33developed by Hippodamus of Miletus.
13:36With those blueprints to work on,
13:38the construction of this so-called
13:40Queen of Cities
13:41began immediately.
13:43What historical moment
13:44would you like to see the most?
13:45Let us know in the comments.
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