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¿Question #3483?
puzzleme: If you could have prevented one event in history, what would it be?

0Shea0: Dude, I dropped a taco once and the innards spilled all over the floor, I scraped up as much as I could but much of the guacamole and sour cream was unsalvageable. WORST. DAY. EVER.
Woelf: The assassination of Franz Ferdinand. No, not the archduke. The band.
Snipes777: The advent of child abuse. Almost all other problems can be linked to the effects of child abuse.
Felimid: Hitler's birth.
Dynamic Trio: obama.
Caerid: The crucifiction of Jesus. Try that one on for a mind exersize. Would there even be Catholosism? Where would Islam have ended up?
ricardofo: Hitler´s birth
Frubgarde: My mother catching me masturbating when I was 13.
Spirit of 70: I don't know. There have been many tragedies and many horrible events, but I do not know that I have the wisdom to anticipate the consequences of any change I would make.
Dave Davies: The Fall
2amp: invention of geekquestions
Phil Fleischmann: The rise of communism
ZeroZilla: If we're restricting ourselves to physical events, then I'll go with Eve's eating of the fruit. With a little bit of leeway, though, I'd go back farther and prevent Satan's bad heart condition, which lead to his betrayal of God... and by degrees to my event of choice.
swordwielder: I would try to prevent Jean Claud van Damme from acting
Diamat: The writing of the bible.
chockle: Invention of the Time Machine
atrium: hmm thats a hard question. You never know if you will in turn be causing something worse to happen.
aleo09: none, than our perfect world could be so different
burbidge: Me not winning the lottery.
DHEK: I'm not sure if I would change anything, because the repurcussions and chain reactions of any change in history could be quite massive. And not necessarily good.
kevin.hodur: Robert Kennedy's assassination (first thing that came to mind)
baronricks: The decline of arena blood sports.
onky: My birth.
dsmeyer: Star Wars Special Edition
davidme: The one that did the most harm to the most people that I care most about.
scriptorum: Oh I dunno, black plague?
ZiggyZambo: You asking this question
Leo H: Cliff Burton's death. Metallica might not suck as much as they do now.
Beelzebub: The publishing of the Bible. No other work of fiction has caused so much pain and sorrow in the world.
MaksimSmelchak: The "never-existed-before" country of Tranjordan / Jordan would have simply been named "Palestine" and created alongside Israel instead of trying for two new Arab states (A Palestinian-Arab one and another Palestinian-Arab one ruled by Husseins and Bedouins called Jordan) out of the remains of the Holy Land.
pattonre: The birth of Hitler
brainrob: England winning the 1966 world cup. Nearly 40 years on they're still talking about it.
_Kael_: MrCranky & Puffinge making a BGG account. ...Wait, that's 2.
jasta6: WW1...........................................though I'd have nothing to read anymore...
WatchmanX2000: The Destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria.
Helenoftroy: Hitler
dietevil: the Holocaust
bigbadsteve: slavery in america
Joanna Olsen: God
aramis: Nazism. Or, if allowed to b something of smaller impact, T.S. moving south in 1986.
LemonyFresh: My decision to start answering these questions
Loquutus: The death of Avalon Hill
Dr. No: WW II
arkibet: my parents hooking up.
GI Joe: The so-called Protestant Reformation. Christendom needs to be united.
axarca: Birth of Barbara Bush.
DonO: The destruction of the Library of Alexandria would be high on my list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Cerebus: The first cellular mitosis.
skrutsch: I don't know. That would probably mess up the timeline. I'd like to have gone to see my Mother a day earlier.
snoozefest: wow. tough. don't know enough about it
POvidiusNaso: The Shoah.
ValJor: The birth of Adolf Hitler
The Unbeliever: 42
erli: Star Wars Episode I, II, and III
Lord_Prussian: No idea
djlg: No way to know what would have heppened otherwise, but Hitler's rise to power.
jttm: A recent war.
Randy Cox: That's tough. Probably the birth of Hitler.
Bahamut-X: What if we'd won the battle on Abraham's Plain... *evil*
skelebone: I would have prevented some special and dear people to me from being murdered.
heli: not sure because I don't have the ability to be sure how things would have turned out otherwise, but perhaps Lincoln's assassination would have changed race relations in this country.
chaddyboy_2000: Your parents having sex.
CDRodeffer: Ferdinand's assassination.
CortexBomb: The Soviet - Nazi peace pact, it ruined the Communist movement in many countries
puffinge: 9/11
Spielfreak: The killing of athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.