The Daily Mail has published its list of the Top 39 (?) Beautiful Moments of the last one hundred years. Of course, a lot of the things they celebrate are among the events I’d have added to my list of the worst moments in the past century (e.g. election of Obama), but there ya go.
Here’s my list of beautiful moments (since Jan 1, 1923, in chronological order).
- 1923: Calvin Coolidge inaugurated
- 1940: Battle of Britain
- 1945: VE- and VJ Day
- 1947: AK-47 first submitted for USSR military trials
- 1963: getting my first air rifle (birthday present)
- 1964: Beatles release A Hard Day’s Night album
- 1967: Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album
- 1968: first Shakespearean acting gig (in Hamlet)
- 1968: French-kissed a girl for the first time
- 1969: Moon landing with Neil Armstrong / Buzz Aldrin
- 1970: bought my first beer (age 15, Castle Inn, Hillbrow, Jhb)
- 1971: lost my virginity
- 1971: first played on stage to an audience (rhythm guitar)
- 1971: member of team competing on S.A. schools’ radio quiz (we won)
- 1971: graduated St. John’s College (First)
- 1972: arrested during anti-apartheid demonstration
- 1972: bought my first two centerfire guns (Mauser 98K, Llama XI 9mm pistol)
- 1973: first professional music gig
- 1974: co-founded Pussyfoot Show Band (later Atlantic Show Band)
- 1976: bought a Rickenbacker 4001S bass guitar
- 1979: first apartment (solo)
- 1979: joined A.C. Nielsen
- 1980: Ronald Reagan elected
- 1980: Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final
- 1981: Hill Street Blues first episode aired
- 1981: slept with four different women over a single weekend
- 1982: first marriage
- 1982: visited America for the first time
- 1983: first extramarital fling
- 1984: first presentation to the Board of a major client
- 1985: bought my first computer (Apple IIe)
- 1986: emigrated to America
- 1989: Berlin Wall came down
- 1989: birth of the Son&Heir
- 1997: my first trip to London
- 1999: published my first novel (Vienna Days)
- 2015: B.A. degree (summa ) in Western European History (UNT)
- 2016: Donald Trump elected
- 2017: met New Wife again, after over 40 years apart
I can think of a few for that list. How about when the Nazi higher ups were hanged, the Rosenbergs were fried, the Berlin Wall came down, Trump installed justices to the Supreme Court.
#12 is completely inaccurate.
You didn’t lose it, you finally managed to give it away, having tried to do so repeatedly since you were 10 years old.
#26 is factually in error. You were not *sleeping*. I would bet that you got very little sleep until Monday night!