The next time you hear a friend say “today was the most boring day in history,” you can tell them they’re wrong. The most boring day in history was actually April 11, 1954. Events on that day included a general election in Belgium and the birth of Turkish academic Abdullah Atalar. The cover of the New York Post was two cops attending a conference on juvenile delinquency. William Tunstall-Pedoe's program, called True Knowledge, uses algorithms to sort 300 million facts about people, places and events, and he decided to calculate the most boring day in history. "The irony is, though, that — having done the calculation — the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring…………unless, that is, you are Abdullah Atalar,” said Pedoe. He said the most exciting day is much harder. "After all, you've got two world wars, assassinations, nuclear bombs, men landing on the moon. It's far easier to calculate the least eventful day. How would you compare the moon landings with Pearl Harbor?”
