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Reason why April 11, 1954 is statistically the most boring day ever

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Published 10:40 11 Nov 2024 GMT

Reason why April 11, 1954 is statistically the most boring day ever

Oh what a time to be alive

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

There is a specific reason why April 11 1954 is statistically the most boring day ever.

It seems like there is never a dull day when it comes to the news.

So is it possible to ever turn on the TV, switch to a news channel and find out that nothing has happened that day?

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According to research, it was the most boring day of the 1900s (GeoStock/Getty Images)
According to research, it was the most boring day of the 1900s (GeoStock/Getty Images)

It might seem like an impossibility but the experts disagree.

In fact, statistically speaking, they reckon it’s already happened.

According to computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe, April 11 1954 was the most boring day in history.

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And he’s done plenty of research to back up his claim.

In 2010, Tunstall-Pedoe decided to set about figuring out what the most boring day was in the 20th century.

To do this, he made use of a search engine he’d invented called True Knowledge.

It first launched in 2007 and has since changed its name to Evi before being acquired by Amazon.

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In November 2010, the search engine used its some 300 million individual facts to calculate that April 11 1954 was the most boring day since 1900.

It did this by using an algorithm to scan through each day in the 100 year period to determine which one was least eventful.

Plans for Disneyland were announced on that day (-/AFP via Getty Images)
Plans for Disneyland were announced on that day (-/AFP via Getty Images)

Of course, it’s not like nothing happened at all on that day in 1954, it just wasn’t particularly interesting.

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Disney announced its plans for the building of the Disneyland theme park in California, which was initially known as Disneylandia.

On that day, Turkish engineering professor Abdullah Atalar was born and also an athlete named Jack Shufflebotham from England died.

There weren’t any particularly remarkable news stories that happened that day - no major films were released and there weren’t any major sporting events or finance updates.

Since posting his findings, many people have tried to prove Tunstall-Pedoe wrong but so far, no one has been able to find either a major event for that date or a day that was even more boring.

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Still, there is another contender for a pretty boring day.

On April 18 1930, people up and down England listened to their radios for the evening news only to hear the BBC broadcaster say quite literally, ‘there is no news’.

This was followed by 15 minutes of piano music.

It seems like the 21st century will struggle to find a similar day but time will tell which the most boring day of our century will be.

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