When was the largest single gathering in American history?

[XNASA]

For any reason. Religion, sports, marches, concerts, etc.

Woodstock? I'm asking.

[momophile]

1. March on Washington?

Just a guess.

[Loonman]

2. I hope it wasn't a Journey or Styx concert

I'm gonna say Woodstock('69).

[underpants]

3. US Concerts?

I would be willing to bet that it was some sort of religous thing that you have never heard of.

[momophile]

4. promise keepers?

please don't let it be the promise keepers.

[Initech]

12. In LA, we have the "Harvest Festival"...

It's the single largest gathering of fundies in California every year.

I think last year the attendance was somewhere in the 60 - 70,000 range.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Million Man March?

:shrug:

[XNASA]

11. Come to think of it.......

Maybe it was Pope JP2 in Grant Park? Estimated at well over 1M.

Even some July 4th fireworks on the Lakefront attract over a million.

Woodstock was less than 500K.

[underpants]

6. At some guy name Max's place

Woodstock NY says Woodstock NY

http://woodstock-ny.com/

[matcom]

7. Central Park gang scene in 'The Warriors'

[johnnie]

8. I use to have some pretty good keggers

But I'm thinking "Hands across America". Does that count?

[XNASA]

10. I was thinking that too.

I've done a little research and the Million Man March and Woodstock are tied at around 400K.

Seems like more people participated in HAA. :shrug:

[Michigander4Dean]

9. My guess: Times Square, December 31, 1999 | nt

[Jamastiene]

13. Let's make it DU Lounge on New Year's Eve.

I wish DU could take the bandwidth for a big party in the Lounge that night.

[Aristus]

14. I think it was here on DU that I read about the largest gathering

in human history. It was a religious festival in India in 1987 or thereabouts. Something like seventy million people gathered in one place. Anyone have the dope on that?

[AngryAmish]

15. Gettysburg?

[XNASA]

16. Does anybody have an answer?

:kick:

[johnnie]

19. I still say HAA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

[XNASA]

20. It's easily the biggest number so far........but..........

It is really a 'gathering' if it's stretched 3000 miles, and there were lots of breaks in the chain...some of them hundreds of miles long?

I dunno.

The biggest number I can come up with is the estimated 1.2 million in Chicago's Grant Park to celebrate a Mass with Pope JP2.

[LSK]

17. civil war battles I would guess.

[XNASA]

18. I can't find any Civil War Battle with more that 200K troops involved.