No news is...dull as dog poo

In 1954, Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile and the first issue of Sports Illustrated was published, Godzilla premiered and Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio.

Amid the historic events of 1954, 11 April has been identified by experts as the most boring day of the 20th century – a day when nothing happened.

(Previously, 18 April  1930 was considered the dullest day of the 20th century. On that day, a BBC radio announcer informed the nation in the 6.30pm bulletin, ‘There is no news.’)

After feeding 300 million facts into a new computer search engine, experts announced that on 11 April 1954, there were no key news events and no one important was born or died.

The best the machine could dredge up was Belgium's fourth post-war general election (whoopee) and the birth of Turkish academic, Abdullah Atalar (who?).

There were only a few hours in this day’s utter inauspiciousness. Bill Haley and the Comets recorded Rock Around The Clock the next day.

I guess the irony is that the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring…unless you are Abdullah Atalar.


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