William Tunstall-Pedoe found out that Sunday, April 11, 1954, was the most eventless day in recorded history. Nothing happened on that Sunday; no wars, no battles, and not a single government toppled. To be fair, politics were far from being a reality show back then.
Using an algorithm to scan through each day in the 20th century, Tunstall-Pedoe discovered that nothing of note happened on April 11, 1954. That is, unless you're Turkish engineering professor Abdullah Atalar, who was born that day.
Lots of things happened on April 11, 1954. They must have. But the claim by a University of Cambridge-trained computer scientist that his supposedly super computer program has determined that the second Sunday in April 1954 was the most boring day since the dawn of the 20th Century is getting some attention on the Web.
"Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and, although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one who might make that claim - Abdullah Atalar, a Turkish academic," Tunstall-Pedoe was quoted as saying by the Telegraph.
On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. On this date: In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. 1944 – Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. 1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
Lincoln Shot at Ford's Theater. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
Table ranking "History's Most Deadly Events": Influenza pandemic (1918-19) 20-40 million deaths; black death/plague (1348-50), 20-25 million deaths, AIDS pandemic (through 2000) 21.8 million deaths, World War II (1937-45), 15.9 million deaths, and World War I (1914-18) 9.2 million deaths.
In 2016, there were 158,504 deaths in Australia (81,867 males and 76,637 females). The leading cause of death was Ischaemic heart disease with 19,077 deaths, or 12.0% of all deaths.
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April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine True Knowledge the least eventful day in the 20th century. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.
William Tunstall-Pedoe found out that Sunday, April 11, 1954, was the most eventless day in recorded history. Nothing happened on that Sunday; no wars, no battles, and not a single government toppled.
A Cambridge scientist has developed a computer program to calculate the most lackluster day since 1900, the Telegraph reports. The verdict? April 11, 1954. Events included a general election in Belgium and the birth of Turkish academic Abdullah Atalar.
The Gregorian Calendar was then introduced on October 4th 1582 and, to realign it to the Julian Calendar, it was necessary to eliminate ten days by passing directly to October 15. And therefore from 5 to 14 October no one was born, no one died. Nothing happened … Why start in October?
There is no year 0. Jesus was born before 4 B.C.E. The concept of a year "zero" is a modern myth (but a very popular one). In our calendar, C.E. 1 follows immediately after 1 B.C.E. with no intervening year zero.
On the fourth of October, 1582, citizens of the Catholic world* went to sleep and woke up ten days later, on the fifteenth of October, with a new calendar. In essence, then, those ten days in 1582 never happened and simply do not exist within the Gregorian calendar system used almost universally in the West today.
The long tail of the age distribution in the Census also shows that around 28,000 Australians were aged over 95 and about 3,000 were over 100 years old. Taken together, the average age of someone 65 or over is in fact 75.
Cause 1: Ischaemic heart disease
Ischaemic heart disease was the leading single cause of deaths in Australia, responsible for 17,331 deaths in 2021, about one in 10 of total deaths that year. Males were more prone to the disease, accounting for 10,371 (59.8%) of the deaths compared to 6,960 (40.2%) for females.
But even in 2016, 15,000 children died every day (totaling 5.6 million a year).
The American Civil War is the conflict with the largest number of American military fatalities in history. In fact, the Civil War's death toll is comparable to all other major wars combined, the deadliest of which were the World Wars, which have a combined death toll of more than 520,000 American fatalities.
Mosquitos are by far the deadliest creature in the world when it comes to annual human deaths, causing around one million deaths per year, compared to 100,000 deaths from snakes and 250 from lions. Perhaps surpringly, dogs are the third deadliest animal to humans.
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