Most. Boring. Day. Ever!

[Liar]

How was your day?

I'll bet it wasn't as uneventful as this one:

April 11, 1954 discovered to be the dullest day ever

It was a terrible day to bury bad news - because on April 11, 1954, NOTHING happened.

In a century that saw two world wars, space exploration and the invention of TV and the internet, that desperately dull 24 hours was the mother of all slow news days.

The only "happening" on that Sunday - apart from a general election in Belgium and the passing of ex-journeyman footballer Jack Shufflebotham - was the birth of a Turk who became an analogue and microwave electronics expert.

The date was discovered after 300 million facts were fed into a new computer search engine in Cambridge called True Knowledge.

Inventor William Tunstall-Pedoe found every other day of the century had at least one major occurrence. But he said of April 11, 1954: "Nobody famous died, no noteworthy events took place and the only person who might claim a notable birth was Turkish academic Abdullah Atalar.

"So the irony is that the day is only interesting for being boring. Unless you are Abdullah Atalar."

Descendants of Jack Shufflebotham might disagree - even though the centre half had played only a handful of games for Oldham Athletic and Notts County before his death that day aged 69.

But even the Belgians would be hard pressed to claim their fourth post-war general elections were nail-bitingly historical stuff.

And nobody - even in France - will remember plans being agreed for a coup d'etat in Yanaon, one of the country's colonies in India.


But it was a short wait for some momentous events to happen that everyone who was around then will recall - Sir Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile for the first time on May 6 and the end of food rationing in July.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...llest-day-ever-115875-22741252/#ixzz16QKjZ1co

 

[Boxlicker101]

How was your day?

I'll bet it wasn't as uneventful as this one:

The battle of Dien Bien Phu was going on in what was then called French IndoChina. If you were involved in that, you might not have thought it a dull day.

For myself, I was 14 years old and a freshman in high school, and it was three days before my mother's birthday anniversary.

I don't actually remember personally anything about the day.

 

[jomar]

Ho hum.

 

[rgraham666]

I wish we had more days like that.

 

[Pure]

one might mention that on that day, there were 150,000 births in the world, and about half that many deaths. important to those involved!

 

[Katyusha]

*yawn*