Tiananmen Square 六四事件

Has it been so long?

In June it would have been 20 years since the Tiananmen incident happened. Apparently 2000 - 3000 protesters died. Politically, China hasn't changed much since, but look at the economic powerhouse it is now. Everyone wants to go to China.

I used to think that history was boring - of things and dead people that happened eons ago. And increasingly I've come to appreciate it a bit, especially when we live through so many great incidences in our lifetime.

• The tsunami that killed over a quarter of a million people and left even more homeless.
• 9/11 - who would have thought anyone would be insane enough to fly 2 planes into a building?
• Economic meltdown of the 2008 - Our great depression of the 21st century
• SARS/Bird and now swine flu - and while it will not reach epic proportions of the spanish flu in 1918, it's still scary, and leaves the world all very scared of it.
• The downfall of communism in most parts of the world and fall of the Berlin wall and the cold war.
• Climate change, and how our world's temperature seems to be increasing by the second.
  

I'm sure there's more, will try to add on this list as I go along.