What historical event 100% sounds like a time traveler went back in time to alter history?

What historical event 100% reads like a Time Traveler went back in time to alter history?

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[gigaslime]

"Stop Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assasination"
"F*ck go back"

[AnoNymous-gntl]

That first one is legitimately spooky. Imagine something that's *WORSE* than all of the death, destruction, and misery caused by WW1, WW2, and the lingering effects of the Cold War which are still felt today. Must have been a pretty bad future if that's the case, right?

[agentboogeyman]

The Battle of Antietam. The single most pivotal battle of the Civil War, where Robert E. Lee's *entire battle strategy* just HAPPENED to be dropped by one of his Generals, conveniently wrapped around a bundle of cigars while a totally random Union soldier just HAPPENED to notice them laying on the ground, giving McClellen the battle on a silver platter as a result. Just too many coincidences for that entire chain of events. It was either the greatest unknown, unrecorded James Bond adventure of the 1800's, or time travel was involved from a future where Lee originally won. Possibly both.

[fireblast]

I saw one story where a guy went back and successfully killed Hitler…then somehow found out the cascading effects he caused doing that, and reluctantly pretended to be Hitler from then on to preserve the timeline.

[adamloga]

The 'keep Hitler alive' Time Travelers maybe knew that unless Germany was effectively hollowed out and Hitler allowed to live long enough for his generals to realize that he was nuttier that rat crap in a pistachio factory, they'd just make him a martyr.

[jordank]

A lot of these are "these people pulled off really impressive feats in a time before the internet so i can't comprehend how people did anything"

[LeahWalentosky]

The Wreck of the Titan, by Morgan Robertson written in 1898. It’s about a giant ship that everyone claims is unsinkable and hits an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks, leaving a huge death toll. The main character dies to saves his lover.

[caltheuntitled]

If I remember correctly from highschool history class, there were even more times where the archduke narrowly avoided death by dumb luck during the parade before he was eventually killed.

Clearly the time traveler tried to stop the assassination, but it was a fixed point in time so no matter what they did, he kept dying anyway. Eventually they must have given up.

[alpha_wolf]

the story of adolphe sax (the guy who invented the saxaphone) definitely qualifies because all the BS he want through before becoming an adult

as a child he fell down 3 flights of stone stairs
eating a large needle, and he passed it perfectly
he drank lead, arsenic, and copper, thinking it was milk
falling into a stove which was of course turned on
almost drowned in a river
a chunk of a roof fell directly onto his head
his bedroom was covered in exposed asbestos. i repeat, he slept in a room for years with asbestos everywhere. and somehow he didn't get cancer.
i am not joking with this one. he was standing next to a barrel of gunpowder when it god damned exploded

either one of two things happened. either someone who really hated jazz wanted to kill him but adolphe just powered through like an absoloute beast and survived. or two rival timetravelers were fighting over the life of this boy. one trying to kill him, the other saving him with futuristic technology.

[nukeboii]

Another theory I have is that the art teacher who rejected Hitler from art school was actually a time traveler to set Hitler back onto the timeline of WW2 because of another potential dictator who Hitler executed

[scylla]

Franz Ferdinand was riding in a car that had the number plate AIII 118, which is the day 4 years later where WWI would cease, Armistice Day 11 November ‘18.

[SilentVinyl]

Casually finding your childhood sled in Norway

[thewarroom]

Funny thing about that last one, there was a meeting with Hitler that was going to shut down the nuclear program and on the same day, there was an incident at the nuclear reactor that caused it to explode, which made the Allies think the Nazis were close to getting an atom bomb, hence the raid.

[silverblade]

The fact that Robert Lee's attempt to attack DC was thwarted by a random Union soldier finding his war plans wrapped around a random cigar!

[joaquinmendoza]

Throughout the whole battle of Castle Itter, it would begin to make sense if the Americans, Germans, and French fighting the SS, were led by Doctor Strange, who checked 14 million outcomes to see which one that was the best case scenario for the group, and made Gangl get his canon event to save the future French prime minister.

It was also a miracle, that the French Tennis player, managed to escape the area, without getting shot by dressing up as an Austrian local, in order to call in Allied reinforcements, just in time to save the castle.

[LCTesla]

There was a guy named Adam Pyke who showed up with a perfectly specced replacement racing bike for a tour down under candidate (Micheal Rogers) who damaged his bike exactly where Pyke was spectating. It was EXACTLY the bike Rogers was used to riding. He could just get on it and get back on his way. How did Pyke know the bike would be needed there and how did he know exactly what kind of bike to take there? Oh and Rogers WON the tour that day.

[NicholasBrakespear]

JFK's older brother... who was the one originally groomed to be president, and flew "one last mission" he didn't need to fly (involving flying a plane full of explosives, the plan being to bail out ahead of the detonation), died because of a minor technical issue that a technician had already warned everybody about, only to be ignored.
If this hadn't happened, the Cuban Missile Crisis might have ended very differently, and perhaps the Americans wouldn't have walked on the moon in 1969. Hell, even Vietnam might have happened differently.

[sonicboom]

I believe the first one is less of death and destruction with Ferdinand survival and more of the the lack of advancement Because of the Wars like in medicine, computers and those stuff

If he survived than advancement takes longer than normal

[JuanRodriguez-cevs]

Last time I read on Fidel Castro's assassination attempts, I felt like a was reading the script for a Looney Tunes cartoon.

[darthdooku]

Lee Kuan Yew. He nearly avoided execution in 1942 during the infamous Sook Ching massacres after Singapore surrendered. When he was ordered to join a group of men (who did not know they would be executed), he hid in his dormitory instead.

He would, somehow, be successfully cleared some time later by another Kempeitai guard.


He would then go on to lead Singapore’s government from 1959 to 1990, overseeing many events from merger with Malaya in 1963 and independence in 1965