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I wouldn't rank 'em the same either.

However, it's comparing apples and oranges. "Moment"? The OJ verdict was a moment. The space shuttle blowing up was a moment. Katrina was not a moment. Even 9/11 was not a moment (for me, the moment was the 2d plane hitting).

And its methodology -- "To measure impact, Nielsen and Sony created a score for each event derived by the number of people who viewed the event live, the number who could recall details about where they were during the occurrence and the number who could remember discussing what happened with others." -- is suspect.

Using its standards, I'd say the biggest moment was the 20th Century. Most people saw some of it live, recall some of what happened, etc.

I grew up in Gardena, was young at the time but remember that.

In my lifetime, I think of:

-The Challenger Explosion
-The first night of The Gulf War
-The LA Riots
-The OJ Simpson Verdict
-9/11
-Election Night in 2008

You are free to make any assumption that you would like.

interesting no sports moments made the list, This is an American list, why no Miracle on Ice?

I did not experience the 9/11 attack on TV. I was in Manhattan. Someone pointed at the tower as I was going to work. I looked up at the flames. It was a clear day. Someone mentioned that a plane had hit it. Unlike most, I immediately thought it may be intentional. It was a clear day. It would be impossible to miss the building. The only other explanation was a pilot that totally lost control of a plane. As I was looking at the building, the second plane hit the building next to it.

When I got to my office, people were watching the TV. After awhile, I heard someone wailing and someone mentioned that a tower had collapsed. It turned out that our COO's husband was in a tower. He could not be reached by telephone. Fortunately, he turned up at our offices a few hours later covered from head to toe in soot, but unharmed. He had gotten out in time, but got caught in the cloud of crap that went up when a tower collapsed. He and his clothes looked charcoal grey other than his eyes.

What about the first landing on the moon? YOU COULDN'T HAVE PRIED WALTER CRONKITE FROM THAT CHAIR WITH A CROW BAR!

Nixon's Resignation? Robert Kennedy's shooting? The U.S. Hockey Team victory? I dunno it seems like that list has a way too modern tilt to it.

how about The Munich massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in 1972?
Tienemen square?

This has to be an oversight. Not only was the landing on the moon watched by just about everybody in the states, but people around the world sat in awe. This has to be a joke.

I agree with the time bias, but I am not so sure about the surprise argument. Of course we knew that the landing was being attempted, but a lot of people wondered whether it could be achieved without any problems. A lot of people worried about a Challenger type moment (long before Challenger existed). Given what we knew at the time of the events (taking away hindsight), there are other events on the list that were probably less surprising.

I was watching the landing, anxious like everybody else. Whole family gathered around the TV. A family event.

I was in a junior high school class when JFK was shot. We also had the Ruby killing that weekend, and that was on live TV.

Exactly...There is just too much modern shit in here. Its like T.V. was only invented in the last 10 Years. I stayed up and watched almost the entire coverage of ABC on the Olympic Massacre, the same with JFK, the Space shot coverage in the early 60's was almost all day.

The Cuban Missile Crisis when the Russian Ships were approaching the line of demarcation was literally nerve racking. But Casey Anthony gets more coverage? She will be long forgotten in 10 years and not even a footnote in 20!

APPALLING...