make history
Verb
Meaning
make history (third-person singular simple present makes history, present participle making history, simple past and past participle made history)
(idiomatic) To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Examples
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
To write history is as important as to make history. If the writer does not remain true to the maker, then the unchanging truth takes on a quality that will confuse the humanity.
While we read history we make history ... Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
On the Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."