If you could change One event post 1900..?

Prevent Chappaquiddick happening as is, instead Ted rescues Mary-Jo from the car and preforms CPR saving her life.

Freddie Mercury never meets Paul Pender.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono never meet.

Challenger goes not launch on a freezing cold day.

Brexit Referendum is a 60% stay result.

John Smith of Labour does not die young resulting in no rise of Tony Blair.

Dr. Beeching's report actually recommended a radical expansion of the rail network and light rail in cities to replace/supplement trams. Beeching recommends a massive shake-up of timetables, duplication of effort, rollout of diesel trains, a huge investment in electrification across the whole county, and building high speed connections north-south and east-west using upgrades to the existing lines.
 
One of these:

  • The Manhattan Project never happens, keeping the nuclear genie in the bottle. Hopefully for good
Not happening without ASBs. The potential of the possibility of an A-bomb is pretty obvious once you know enough atomic theory. Sooner or later someone will invent it.
 
Taking an idea from the pre-1900 forum:



For me post 1900, I would change Titanic's sinking- I have always be fascinated what those 2200 people could have done with their lives, and how they might have influenced events.

What's yours?
prevent ww1 , the event that set the stage for
1 Europe to commit suicide twice
2 present day anarchy in the middle east
3 the pacific war [ if European powers are not so weakened ]
4 global communism

world still would have been a pretty miserable place but atleast so many global deaths could have been avoided
 
Hmmm... need to think, but got one: Have Reagan best Ford in the 1976 primaries. He’d be able to beat Carter and then lead the GOP to absolute defeat 1976-1980, crushing neoconservatism and tossing the balls for the progressives of the Dems with people like Ted Kennedy and Mo Udall still in the game. Progressivism gets the glory for leading the recovery from the economic slump and curtails the excesses of the rise of the financial sector. Also forces the GOP to reform and moderate a fair bit.
 
Have nuclear power develop before WWII, so it's used by civilians before nukes are invented. This would mean nuclear non-proliferation treaties are less likely to interrupt the development of nuclear power and nuclear power doesn't get a terrible reputation, so we can all say "good riddance" to climate change!
 
The Korean War ends in UN/South Korean-coalition victory. That area of the world is stabilised and we don't have to worry about North Korea anymore.
 

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prevent ww1 , the event that set the stage for
1 Europe to commit suicide twice
2 present day anarchy in the middle east
3 the pacific war [ if European powers are not so weakened ]
4 global communism

world still would have been a pretty miserable place but atleast so many global deaths could have been avoided
Is that just one event? I agree that the world without the world wars would be better in every way.
 
You can change things after your birth so you are still exist.
It would still render every person born after that point nonexistent. If I stop 9/11 I’d still be alive because I was born before but every person conceived after 9/11 wouldn’t have been conceived which is functionally the same as murder in my opinion. What gives a normal human being the right to alter the very fabric of reality because they think they know best?
 
Sterling hurting his neck was a shame. Imagine Favre having him for 5-6 more seasons, they definitely would have won back to back Super Bowls. If we're doing sports changes, then mine would either be Don Mattingly never hurting his back, or Len Bias not doing cocaine. Having Donnie Baseball healthy enough to play into the Yankee championship dynasty era would have been my boyhood dream come true. And Len Bias was such a great talent it would have been cool to see him playing for those awesome Celtics teams.
That was, but here's the thing: Sharpe was having a fallout around that time with the Packers about his contract. Even if Sharpe stays healthy, 1994 may have been his last year in the Green and Gold.

Here's a crazy idea: Maybe he gets traded to the Jags along with Mark Brunell for a 1995 first round pick (Jacksonville's second, or 31st overall), 1996 first-round pick, 1995 second-round pick, 1996 third-round pick, and a player like Jeff Lageman.
 
Is that just one event? I agree that the world without the world wars would be better in every way.
Good point
Atleast avoid the trigger for ww1

less important but personal to me I’d like to see

how the handsome Thomas SAnkara would have matured as an African leader

see the nefarious influence of France disappear in sub Saharan Africa

Zia ul haq of Pakistan be killed in 1979

Russia admitted to NATO in 1991 leading to unification of Europe

Sex Pistols release more albums

Unified Germany a largely demilitarized and neutral country ( like a giant Austria or Finland ) be a buffer between NATO and WP

socialist Arab republic in Arabian peninsula centered in Yemen abolish all kingship in Arab workd

South Africa and Rhodesia ( with non racist policies ) at peace with its black neighbors will be a huge stimulus for economic and political development in that region
 
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I would prevent the collapse and partition of the Ottoman Empire.
a more stable, prosperous middle east, no Israel, no terrorist groups, a much better world in general.
Probably the latest good post-1900 POD to do this would be to somehow foil the 1913 Coup, preferably in a manner that leaves both Enver and Talaat dead, and the CUP (or at least its most radical elements) firmly suppresed. A government is formed under Freedom and Accord, and the Ottomans (probably) don't get drawn into WWI, unless attacked...
 
I wouldn’t change anything because by doing so I’d be rendering most people alive today (including myself) nonexistent.
Ah, but it's a moral dilemma... if you knew that your POD would avert the deaths in horrible ways of millions of people, the main consequence being that you and millions of others would simply never exist, having been "replaced" by millions of others with somewhat different DNA (if you accept the "broad interpretation" of butterfly theory)... some would probably argue that it would be a monstrous and self-centered thing not to do it...
Of course, there's always the conundrum that your well-intentioned POD could lead to even more horrendous consequences on down the line...
 
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