<p>The invention of duct tape...</p>
<p>adam and eve eating the fruit in the garden of eden
the concept of right and wrong, good and evil, and sin comes into the world</p>
<p>Magna Carta</p>
<p>Commodore Perry arriving in Tokyo Bay. (I'm Japanese, haha)</p>
<p>I said when Halle Berry won the academy award for Best Actress.</p>
<p>^ are you serious? why? i mean, sidney poitier and denzel washington both won before that if you're talking about racism....</p>
<p>when einstein propsed special relativity - marked the begining of modern physics.</p>
<p>Courtette44, I said this because firstly, I knew that the answer would make me stand out from the pack. Secondly, I stated this because it took 70 years for an African American woman to win this award. I am completely aware that Sidney Poitier had won the award for best actor. I am a movie fanatic. However, it took even longer for a black woman to win this award, and I found that shocking.</p>
<p>alessandro de volta's creation of the voltaic cell (first continuously moving form of electricity)</p>
<p>I put the moment i got into wharton and went on to become a great businessman.</p>
<p>i got the impression they were going for something more personal and related to the applicant, instead of something like an event that many people don't know about that was the true cause of something grand like electricity or civil rights or something.</p>
<p>ilikethethrills, that's what I thought too. Really, I can see adcoms reading the answers to that question and just going "Oh. That's cool." if it's something general, but if it's a personalized answer it gives them something interesting to read :P</p>
<p>Then again they may not like my sliced bread answer but alas...</p>
<p>now is the culmination of the past, now is the beginning of the future, and now is the only turning point in history.</p>
<p>lol well, this was an essay topic to get into Pre-AP US I back in frosh year and I wrote about Gutenberg, citing how it opened up the possibility for a revolution in thinking, and of course how without it i'd never be the bibliophile I am today.</p>
<p>Woohoo crazy bibliophiles! Let's hear it for everyone else on this read who read the 876 pages of Harry Potter 5 in under 6 hours! (I'm a psychopath...humor me, it's one of my pathetic little claims to fame lol)</p>
<p>under 6? i bow before the master. i thought a day was good... but that was at least 9.</p>
<p>theconfuzzingguy,
history means the past.</p>
<p>6??? I read it in like 4 hours. hehe. midnight sale... i won the book from the local bookstore so i didn't have to stand in the long line... went home and read like 3/4 of the book before going to bed. finished it when i got up a few hours later.</p>
<p>i put my bday, too</p>
<p>Harry Potter 5 was 870 pages. It took me a whole day :'(</p>
<p>I put the creation of the universe.</p>
<p>If I were a senior, and if I had applied, I probably would have put the day Stradivarius perfected the model of the violin.</p>