Saturday, May 25, 2013

April 11: Boring?

On April 11, 1905, Albert Einstein published his special
theory of relativity.  In 1814, Napolean was exiled to Elba.  In 1888,
one of the great orchestras of the world, the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, was established.

Now here is the interesting bit: by searching for news events, it was
claimed that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day of the 20th
century.  A team of scientists at Cambridge University scoured through
300 million news stories to find the day with the least number of
newsworthy events.

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