<p>I put "The conception of Jesus Christ"</p>
<p>How about you guys?</p>
<p>I put the Wright brothers’ first controlled and sustained flight.</p>
<p>well I knew that most of the answers would be like “signing of the declaration of independence” “landing on the moon” etc. so I put something unconventional, and less serious honestly. </p>
<p>but I’d rather not post it…</p>
<p>Haha let’s hear it man (or woman?)</p>
<p>I thought mine was pretty unorthodox</p>
<p>I wanted to put the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, but in the end I wrote about the Solar Storm of 1859</p>
<p>the invention that lit the world and put the candle out of business - humphry davy’s first incandescent light in 1802</p>
<p>The first heart transplant done in the US, at Stanford U. 
Quite a cheesy answer, but I talked about it in my “Why Stanford,” as that was one of the ways I learned about Stanford and became interested in it.
And my intellectual vitality was me comparing dissecting a cat for Anatomy class to performing surgery on a human, so it tied in well!</p>
<p>The Chernobyl catastrophe. </p>
<p>From a safe distance! :P</p>
<p>Billy Mills 1964 Olympic Gold Medal win at the 10,000 m; improving his time by 2 whole minutes and claiming one of largest upsets in Olympic history; all by training his mind with self-hypnosis</p>
<p>I also put the Wright Brothers’ flight, largely because it mirrored my intellectual vitality essay.</p>
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<p>Same. Unless you’re a really big us history bluff, you’ll probably have no idea what the event was. x)</p>
<p>Wasn’t Jesus supposed to be immaculately concepted? What would there have been to watch? I wrote that I wanted to be a part of the women’s suffrage movement, and that I wanted to live to shout WE SHALL OVERCOME only a few decades later.</p>
<p>Lincoln’s assassination, just to see what the actors did.</p>
<p>Morbid, hmm.</p>
<p>I think mine was pretty unique. It wasn’t a famous historical moment, but still historical enough, I hope! Here it is:</p>
<p>Near the end of his life, William Bouguereau invited families to his house; he watched them play together as he painted them. These portraits became his last paintings. I would have liked to have been there, watching him draw inspiration from life and create some of the art that has most touched me.</p>
<p>My daughter’s idea of “an historical event” is Woodstock. And, because she’s a lover of music and peace, she wished she could have been there, feeling it symbolized a cultural movement that impacted an entire generation. Okay…so it DOESN’T sound like what Stanford might be looking for, ie; the typical ‘historical moment’ answers several of you wrote here. But, whaddyagonnado? It’s what she wrote. :)</p>
<p>hey what if I wrote 4,</p>
<p>@snoopyiscool - You want morbid? I put “the first successful test of the atomic bomb”.</p>
<p>I wrote that I would have liked to participate in the Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Greece. I figured it would be unique, and I’m pretty interested in the Classics and Greek culture.</p>
<p>^Something similar, I put the trial of Socrates – for its legal and philosophical value.</p>
<p>^ I thought about writing that too, actually. I also considered writing that I would like to go to one of the Greater Dionysia festivals to see some Greek theatre.</p>