proposed by Nathalie Hudson, University for Peace, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica

There are many dates that are often quoted as having changed our world, but most of them are  murders, deaths, bloody wars etc - for instance 28th June 1914 The assassination of Franz Ferdinand which started the First World War, the 7th of December 1941 the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour or the 6th of August 1945 - the A-Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and of course 9/11 2001 the Twin Towers, to mention just a more recent one.

There are certainly some more positive ones that have also been turning points in history, like 12th October 1492 when Columbus made Landfall in the Americas, the 7th March 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone, or the 28th of August 1963 Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech, or maybe you prefer the 21st of July 1969 "The Eagle has landed" -the first man on the Moon or even the 11th of February 1990 - the release of Nelson Mandela.....the list goes on.

However we realise there are many other important dates than those few above, we now want your suggestions to make up a list of GOOD or POSITIVE days that have changed the course of our world's history forever, where men & women stood at the crossroads of destiny.  Then when we have a list of say, 50+ dates we'll have a vote to see which 20 good days are considered the most influential in the world's history. Send in your suggestions to: editorial@worldgoodnewsonline.com Then go to the forum and propose the merits of your submissions and why you agree or disagree with other people's proposed dates. We look forward to hearing your suggestions & ideas - please get your friends, family & colleagues to send in their suggestions too.  We need the important good dates from around the world.

Some of the suggestions received so far : -

1504 : Statue of David by Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect & poet who exerted an unparallelled influence on the development of Western art - from Giuseppi Bucciarelli, Casalbordino, Italy                           

5th July 1687: Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosoopher & alchemist published  " The Principia" defining the laws of motion including gravity - from Stuart Shaw, Sheffield, England 

1865 : Joseph Bazlgette - inventor of modern sewerage system - Richard Abdy, Sheffield  England

1895 : X rays discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen - from Juergen Schaefer, Stockholm, Sweden 

Sept 1928 : invention of Penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming - from Malvin Sellars, Doncaster England 

24th October 1945 : creation of the United Nations - from Linden Pride, Woolloomooloo NSW Australia

12 August 1981 : Launch of the first (IBM) PC - from Nicole Wong, Singapore                                           

9th November 1989 : Breaching of the Berlin Wall - leading to the Unification of Berlin & Germany, the end of Soviet Communism and the "Iron Curtain" across Europe - from Christian Kruger, Berlin, Germany.                    

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