If I Had A Time Machine... Part 2

With a time machine, there are so many possibilities, and therefore it's very difficult to pick just one thing that I would want to do. Now in this scenario, I fit the requirements for each event. For example, when asked what they would do, lots of people answer that they would go back and "punch Hitler". As if someone in the forties could just go up to Adolf Hitler and clock him square in the face. Anyway, here are some of the historical events that I wish I could have witnessed:

1. I’d definitely want to be in South Africa in 1994, on the day Nelson Mandela won the first democratic elections in the history of the country and was voted in as the first black president of South Africa. I’d like to see the lines of elderly black people who suffered under apartheid for fifty years waiting to vote. I’d want to get carried away, joining the women ululating and dancing the toyi-toyi in jubilation. 

2. I've always wanted to be there for the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, the day President Lincoln declared that American slaves had been set free.


3. The first landing on the moon, from the first planning session to the last post session.


4. Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech


Those are my top 5 for now. I will continue to think about this, though.