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Date Posted: 26/11/10 0:38:30
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>isn't the news: April 11, 1954... the most boring day
>of the 20th century
>By Andrew Levy
>Last updated at 11:32 PM on 25th November 2010
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>It was the year that Roger Bannister broke the four-
>minute mile and food rationing came to an end.
>The Queen became the first reigning monarch to visit
>Australia and Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio.
>But amid historic events of 1954 was a date which can
>only today be classed as significant – for its
>insignificance.
>Enlarge The front page of the Daily Mail from the
>12th April 1954, the day after 'the world's most
>boring day'... but, of course, we still produced a
>dazzling newspaper
>April 11 of that year has been identified by experts
>as the most boring of the 20th century – a day when
>nothing of note happened.
>After feeding 300million facts into a new computer
>search engine they have announced there were no key
>news events or births and deaths of famous people.
>The best the machine could muster for the day was the
>fact that Belgium had its fourth post-war general
>election and a Turkish academic who taught electronics
>was born.
> Journeyman footballer Jack Shufflebotham, who played
>a handful of games for Oldham Athletic and Notts
>County, died, aged 69, and plans for a coup d’etat
>in Yanaon, a French colony in India, are believed to
>have been agreed.
>But it could all have been so different for April 11.
>History notes that Bill Haley and the Comets recorded
>Rock Around The Clock the next day.
>It is not the first time a particular day has been
>singled out for its lack of moment.
>According to BBC Radio, April 18, 1930, was the
>dullest day of the 20th century after an announcer
>informed the nation at the 6.30pm bulletin: ‘There
>is no news.’
>But the experts claim this date fell in the midst of
>the Great Depression and witnessed the death of
>Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, the first
>Cardinal to be born in Latin America.
>There was also the birth of Clive Revill, the New
>Zealand-born actor best known for his Shakespearean
>performances on the London stage.
> William Tunstall-Pedoe, founder of the new search
>engine True Knowledge, which is based in Cambridge,
>said: ‘When the results came back, the winner was
>April 11, 1954 – a Sunday.
>‘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.
>‘The irony is, though, that – having done the
>calculation – the day is interesting for being
>exceptionally boring.
>‘Unless, that is, you are Abdullah Atalar.’
>True Knowledge, 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
>this year.
>The system can store hundreds of millions of facts
>about people, places, events and businesses.
>The big stories in the Daily Mail on 12th April 1954
>(the day after the world's most boring day)U.S. races
>aid to Indo-China: US forces were organising a major
>airlift to ensure adequate military supplies reached
>French forces in Indo-China.
>The Queen walks and the guests stay seated: The Queen
>was at a garden party in Colombo, what was then the
>capital of Sri Lanka, known then as Ceylon. The young
>queen wowed the audience in a cool silk dress,
>although the picture is black and white, and no one
>recorded what colour it was.
>Surrender offer to Mau Mau scrapped: British troops
>were fighting Mau Mau gangs in Kenya after withdrawing
>a mass surrender offer. RAF bombers swept over the
>forests, dropping tons of explosives on terrorist
>hideouts.
>
>No repeats, musicians tell BBC: The Musicians Union
>banned all repeat recordings of BBC Programmes in
>which their musicians were used. Union leaders were
>demanding the full ‘live’ rate, rather than the
>smaller repeat payments which had been introduced
>because of the shortage of musicians in the war.
>
>£50 Hook-up: A thief stole a £50 silver cup from a
>London flat after hooking it through a window with a
>long pole.
>
>Amps for oil: Six thousand oil-lit farms in East
>Anglia were promised electric light – but they had
>to wait until the end of 1958 to see the light.
>
>Catholics lose Belgian elections: Belgium’s
>government was in crisis then – as now – after the
>Catholic Party conceded defeat in the country’s
>fourth post-war General Election.
>
>Ballet ‘might damage machine underneath’: Renowned
>ballerina Alicia Markova was banned from dancing on
>the stage of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall after
>being told she might damage delicate machinery hidden
>underneath.
>
>It was like first day of summer: Much of Britain
>basked in glorious sunshine as temperatures peaked at
>26C.
>
>Equal work for laundry man: A man who tried to take
>his washing to a laundry in Kensington was refused
>because the laundrette was ‘women only.’
>
>
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>Places: Cambridge, Liverpool, London, Sri Lanka,
>Kenya, China, India, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand
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>delightful - such a shame that our world isn't so
>peaceful now!
>- franglais, bagneres, France, 26/11/2010 08:23
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>Not much has changed looking at some of todays
>stories...
>- Me, Garden of England, 26/11/2010 08:21
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>Who paid for this rubbish?
>- Anti Euer, In what was once a beautiful country,
>26/11/2010 08:16
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>What's an expert in this instance.....a new style
>'university' academic perhaps!
>- Gordon Bay, London and Cape Town, 26/11/2010 05:51
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>If you say so. Twas a bit before my time.
>- Pip, United Kingdom, 26/11/2010 04:23
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>I don't think you would have found it boring at Dien
>Bien Phu "the first time that a non-European colonial
>independence movement had evolved through all the
>stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally
>organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern
>Western occupier in pitched battle."
>- Al, St Lucia, 26/11/2010 01:42
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