"Spectacles" witnessed in your lifetime?

What spectacles have you witnessed in your lifetime? Once I was at the subway and these security guards backed this guy against the wall because he was using counterfeit fares.

• car in front of me went under a truck. One dead, one hurt.

• [quote] Once I was at the subway and these security guards backed this guy against the wall because he was using counterfeit fares. The bar has been set low if this is a spectacle.

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• Not sure how you define spectacle, but here goes. The panic which ensued when Sara Moore took a shot at Pres. Ford in San Francisco way back when. The Candlelight march on the evening of the Milk assassination. Launch of the shuttle with the Hubble from the Cape.

• There was this low-flying jet, so I looked up and...

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• The AB101 veto riot in San Francisco The AB101 protest rally at Stanford

• The Oakland firestorm of '91

• I saw the Twin Towers collapse in front of my eyes.

• First WTC bombing Second WTC attack Cars on East River Drive near Gracie Mansion being evacuated by boat in Nor'easter of 92 East River flooding First Ave in Dec 92 Several presidential motorcades and Popemobile passings Guy swinging machete running down 34th st , hitting people Homelessness epidemic 1980s-mid 1990s Gentrification of my neighborhood, loss of home. Loss of homes by about 40% of people in my building as it turned from middle-income rental into "luxury condos." Rudy Giuliani parading down street with Judith Nathan followed by half the NYC press corps Aftermath of crane collapse as workers freed Brigitte Gerney Multiple windings in stores that were near subway stations (wilding was real, even though it wasn't what happened to the Central Park jogger). Change of Central Park from seedy, weed-and-scrub landscape place populated by scarey drug dealers, muggers and packs of teens into a beautiful, safe urban oasis studded with lovely gardens and quiet zones. I'm sure I'll think of others.

• Election night 2008, Grant Park

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• I once went to the Polo Lounge and met Swifty Lazar.

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• I agree with R3 - not sure about OP's definition of spectacle. Liza at the Palace. Now, THAT was a Spectacle!

• SUV speeding past me at a high rate of speed blowing a tire and losing control. It was all over the road and all of us other drivers were swerving to try avoid it's path and each other. It ended up flipping and landing on it's side. It was absolute chaos and miracle that other cars didn't end up involved.

• Lately, every accident filmed from our local TV stations' helicopter. ***BREAKING NEWS!***

• I was jaywalking with a bunch off people and a woman right in front of me was wiped out by a car going at considerable speed. I've never seen anything like it up close,before or since.