Where Did the Shot Heard Round the World Happen?

[rangerrebew]

Where Did the Shot Heard Round the World Happen?
Rebecca Beatrice Brooks    January 5, 2012     

The Shot Heard Round the World occurred during a brief battle between British troops and local minutemen at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War.

When Did the Shot Heard Round the World Happen?

The shot heard round the world took place on April 19, 1775 after British troops searching for ammunition stockpiles in Concord encountered the local minutemen.

The battle came to be known as the Battle of Concord. Several of the British soldiers were killed during the battle and the battle itself was considered the first victory in the fight for America’s independence.

http://historyofmassachusetts.org/where-did-the-shot-heard-round-the-world-happen/

[Absalom]

Emphatically disagree.
The shot heard 'round the world occurred on June 28, 1914, fired by Gavrillo Princip
in Sarajevo, Serbia, which killed Hapsburg Archduke Francis Ferdinand, unleashing
the Great War; arguably the greatest catastrophe that ever occurred on this Planet!!!

[Fishrrman]

You're right about that, Absalom.

What started in Sarejevo in 1914 didn't end until Berlin in 1945...

[rustynail]

Dealey Plaza.

[skeeter]

Emphatically disagree.
The shot heard 'round the world occurred on June 28, 1914, fired by Gavrillo Princip
in Sarajevo, Serbia, which killed Hapsburg Archduke Francis Ferdinand, unleashing
the Great War; arguably the greatest catastrophe that ever occurred on this Planet!!!

The Sarajevo incident was definitely a shot heard round the world, but the phrase was coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in reference to the Battle at the North Bridge in Concord 180 years ago.

[Machiavelli]

Did you hear that NASA recently put a bunch of Holsteins into low earth orbit?

They called it the herd shot 'round the world.