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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the 75 moments that captured the attention of much of the world.

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What began as a simple FBI raid turned into a 51-day standoff, capped by a massacre broadcast around the world.

In 1993, federal agents surrounded a Texas compound occupied by the Branch Davidians.

The heavily armed cult was led by self-proclaimed prophet David Koresh.

What followed was a tense, chaotic siege marked by gunfire, negotiation failures, and round-the-clock media coverage.

It ended in tragedy when a fire engulfed the compound during a final assault.

People are stretching. Some people have taken their gas masks off.

When the smoke cleared, 76 people were dead, including children.

The images were harrowing, the aftermath incendiary.

It sparked a wave of anti-government rage and far-right extremism that still echoes in America today.

For the children's sake, you know, you might have to bear a gun one day.

After a second explosion, smoke obscured the front of the embassy again.

And then there was gunfire. It seemed to come from all around the building.

For six days in 1980, the world held its breath.

Armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 employees hostage.

They demanded independence for the Iranian province of Khuzestan.

An English crisis quickly escalated into an international incident.

The guy who was doing three-eyes to the team came into the killing house and he said, hey, get the guys down. There's a siege underway.

This was it, the real thing. It was going to happen.

The siege was transmitted live and watched across the globe.

On day six, the gunman executed one of the hostages, tossing his body into the street.

Britain responded with a raid, broadcast live, stunning the world.

The operatives stormed the building in broad daylight, neutralizing the attackers in a dramatic high-risk rescue.

The footage of masked commandos descending from the roof became instantly iconic.

For a brief moment, all eyes were on a single building in London.

After six days and almost 11 hours exactly, the siege at number 16 Princes Gate is over.

Anyone is touched by that. You know, I mean, children have lost their parents, parents have lost their children, whole families were wiped out.

On October 8, 2005, the ground shook from a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Entire towns were reduced to rubble in seconds.

Some 90,000 people were killed, more than 100,000 were injured, and millions were left homeless as winter closed in.

It was one of the deadliest quakes of the 21st century.

The devastation was catastrophic, but the global response was immediate.

The Americans sent military helicopters, medical teams flew in from Cuba.

Financial, food, and logistical support all converged in a rare show of international unity.

For a brief moment, the world stopped fighting just long enough to help.

Officials have said that it could be between about three and five years before all the homes that need to be rebuilt are rebuilt.

But we've heard from other officials, there are estimates it could be as long as eight or even 10 years.

So perhaps a decade before this region really gets back on its feet.

The Third Mate and the helmsman at the wheel both say they followed orders.

But whether it was miscommunication or poor navigation, the Exxon Valdez did not turn back into the shipping lane when it was supposed to.

It was a slow-motion catastrophe that stained more than just the Alaskan coastline.

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez, a massive oil tanker, slammed into a reef off the Alaskan coast.

The Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.

The images were unforgettable, shocking the world.

After the Exxon Valdez ran aground, Exxon spent $3.8 billion on cleanup.

But the crews only scratched the surface.

Oil slicked otters, dying birds, blackened water.

Roughly 1,300 miles of pristine coastline was devastated.

The local fishing economy and ecosystems took decades to recover.

The outrage was instant, and protests, lawsuits, and international regulations followed.

The spill was a turning point in how the world viewed corporate responsibility and environmental fragility.

Portable pumps are now on the damaged Exxon Valdez, enabling the transfer to continue of the 40 million gallons of oil still on board the vessel.

But tonight, fears are growing that the spill is spreading through the waters of the Sound uncontrolled.

If you can win the 100-meter dash and be proclaimed the world's fastest man, you have etched your place in sports history.

Jesse Owens' performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was less a victory than it was a four-medal middle finger.

A black American athlete, Owens won four gold medals under the glaring eye of Adolf Hitler.

His dominance shattered Nazi fantasies of Aryan supremacy on their home turf.

100-meter final is Jesse Owens in first place with a time of 10.3 seconds.

Back home, he still couldn't sit at the front of the bus.

He couldn't use the same facilities as white athletes or even expect a hero's welcome.

His performance was a defiant not today to two racist regimes at once.

The world stood still as he soared, and racists across the world had their bigotry shoved back in their faces.

In the context of the Hitler Olympics, it was a beautiful moment, but it also shows what the Olympics should really be about.

Little Dolly and many other species of animals cloned since, including monkeys, are powerful evidence that we humans can replicate ourselves.

The world saw the future in her fluffy sheep eyes.

She was born in 1996, but scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland unveiled her in 1997, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

What looked like an adorable little ewe was actually a scientific breakthrough that shook the foundations of science.

This particular lamb got onto its feet very quickly and started bleeding and looking to get its first feed of milk from its mother.

Ethical debates exploded overnight from academia to religious institutions and kitchen tables across the earth.

Headlines warned against human clones, predicting designer babies and playing God.

But for all the fear, there was also awe.

Dolly was proof positive that we could copy life itself.

This latest research on sheep did not rely on any revolutionary new technology.

In fact, many in vitro fertilization clinics use the same equipment.

But it's clear this cloning technique still requires some refinement.

One moment, there was a fire at the port.

The next, half of Beirut seemed to explode.

On August 4, 2020, a warehouse in Beirut packed with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded.

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