Top 5 Craziest Events Captured on Live TV

5. 1995 Stolen Tank in San Diego
-Shawn Nelson, a U.S. Army Veteran and unemployed plumber stole as M60A3 Patton tank from the United States National Guard Armory in San Diego
-His 23 minute rampage on May 17, 1995 was caught live on television as he smashed through parked cars, fire hydrants and telephone poles. He was eventually stopped when he tried to cross a concrete highway divider. Police shot him from above looking down the hatch after he refused to surrender at which he died later in hospital.
-It’s a sad story as his wife divorced him, both his parents died, his new girlfriend died and his plumbing equipment was stolen from his truck leading him to home foreclosure all within 3 years of the event. The guy clearly just snapped from bad luck.

4. Space Shuttle Challenger Launch Disaster
At 11:39am on January 28, 1986 at Cape Canaveral Florida the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch. On board was teacher Christa Mcauliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space. A total 7 crew died including 5 NASA astronauts and 2 payload specialists.
The event was broadcasted live on CNN with 17% of all Americans watching and 85% of Americans hearing about the disaster within 1 hour of it happening.

3. Tohoku Tsunami
-On March 11, 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred 43 miles off the coast of Japan. Being the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan it generated tsunami waves up to 133 ft tall with a wave that traveled 6 miles inland. The tsunami was so powerful it actually moved the entire island of Japan 8 feet east and shifted the Earth on its axis between 4 inches and 10 inches. The earthquake resulted in 16,000 people losing their lives, 230,000 homes destroyed, 300 billion dollars in damage and a Stage 7 Nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant. To this day Fukushima is still leaking radiation which many believe is the reason for fruit and vegetable mutations and elevated levels of radiation on the west coast of Canada and the United states.

2. 9-11 Terrorist Attacks
On September 11th, 2001 a series of 4 coordinated terrorist attacks were caught on camera. Merely 20 minutes after a passenger airline jet slammed into the World Trade Center a second jet was caught on live TV hitted the second tower. Within an hour and 42 minutes both 110 story towers collapsed. The 3rd jet that hit the pentagon was captured by a gas station security camera but that footage was confiscated and never released to the public.

1. The Moon Landing
Broadcasted live to the world, the Moon Landing on July 20, 1969 was watched by more than 530 million people around the world. The Eagle lunar module landed on the moon at 4:18 pm with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the moon nearly 6 hours after they landed. You might ask why would they wait 6 hours, it merely was the time needed to do their post flight checks, and time needed to prepare their life support backpacks. Apparently the hatch door to the lander was changed last minute but the backpacks weren’t tested on the new hatch and the highest heart rate Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin experienced during the entire trip was trying to squeeze out the door without damaging their suits. It took a 363 foot rocket unleashing 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel the astronauts 240,000 miles to the moon, something this amazing and monumental deserves the top spot on this list.

Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNNo0VzoZfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmAbcDud2L8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBIr65cL_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpuLlIrUYsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFHymR7cgn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLm3pkAiJQ

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