Wrong. The computer program True Knowledge defined April 11, 1954 as the most boring of the 20th century – a day where absolutely nothing happened. Algorithms using weighted values for more than three million facts including historical events, birthdays of significant people, etc. made experts conclude that April 11, 1954, was really, really uneventful.
But why was it so boring? Usually in other days, someone famous was born, someone notorious died, or something significant happened. On this specific day apparently none of that went down. The leading scientist who came up with that date, William Tunstall-Pedoe, searched for a day where no result really popped up:
"It occurred to us that we are able to objectively measure the importance of every day in history. Some days are highly eventful and on some days far less happens and we can also objectively estimate the importance of these events. For fun we wrote the program and set it going. When the results came back the winner (or perhaps loser) was April 11, 1954 – a Sunday in the 1950s.”
But why was it so boring? Usually in other days, someone famous was born, someone notorious died, or something significant happened. On this specific day apparently none of that went down. The leading scientist who came up with that date, William Tunstall-Pedoe, searched for a day where no result really popped up:
"It occurred to us that we are able to objectively measure the importance of every day in history. Some days are highly eventful and on some days far less happens and we can also objectively estimate the importance of these events. For fun we wrote the program and set it going. When the results came back the winner (or perhaps loser) was April 11, 1954 – a Sunday in the 1950s.”
The best the machine could muster for the day was the fact that Belgium had its fourth post-war general election and that a Turkish academic who taught electronics was born. But it could all have been so different for April 11. On April 12th history notes that Bill Haley and the Comets recorded Rock Around The Clock, forever inscribing this day in musical history.
Other major events on April 12th 1954 include US forces organizing a major airlift of military supplies to forces in Indo-China, RAF bombers sweeping over the forests of Kenya, dropping tons of explosives on Mau Mau hideouts, and electricity finally being brought to the households of East Anglia, the UK, home of among other buildings the Cambridge University.
True Knowledge (now known as Evi), which provides a direct answer to a question instead of providing a list of links like other sites such as Google, was launched online in February 2007. The system can store hundreds of millions of facts about people, places, events and businesses.
The funniest thing is that the most boring day ever is now somewhat interesting, because of its status as the most boring day ever. So does that mean the second most boring day ever is now the most boring?
True Knowledge (now known as Evi), which provides a direct answer to a question instead of providing a list of links like other sites such as Google, was launched online in February 2007. The system can store hundreds of millions of facts about people, places, events and businesses.
The funniest thing is that the most boring day ever is now somewhat interesting, because of its status as the most boring day ever. So does that mean the second most boring day ever is now the most boring?
That is ironic. LOL
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