Most Epic Lifetime Ever

Top 25Turns out that three fourths of what are considered the 25 headlines that shaped history occurred in my lifetime. We so often talk about all of the great or devastating things that happened in history, but our lifetime has seen things that those historians could never have predicted. We are the generation that people will be talking about forever for our dense event history. Is it possible that, in the next generation, children will not even study Benjamin Franklin? Electricity may be such an innate concept by then that it will not matter who gave life to it. History books will be filled with events that we watched on television for weeks and knew people who were involved, and we can literally sit our grandchildren on our lap and tell them first hand stories of what they are learning in school. What are considered the most important things in history are happening right now.