What's your favorite moment in history and why?

>>858842
The story might be apocryphal but I always enjoyed the yarn about Honda Tadakatsu riding out with only a handful of men to challenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi to battle. As the story goes, Hideyoshi was so impressed he ordered Honda and his men be unharmed and he marched his army around him, giving Tokugawa Ieyasu time to move his own army into position. I mean, the sheer amount of balls one would have to possess for that is just hilarious.

For me it was August 15 1987, that was the fateful day I plowed your mother and conceived you, to be fair everything after that is a storm of disappointment, do you really need that many anime pillows my son?

2010.

Honestly? It's not so much a moment as it is a period of transition. The re-ascension of the Roman Empire during the end phase crisis of the third century. They needed to call upon the greatest military and political minds of the age to re-unify. And, somehow, they were able to do so.

The day Thomas Payne's 'Common Sense' was conceived.

Or, the birth of Alan Turing.

Or, the day my father was born.

Or, the day I discovered books.

How to pick?