A Computer Scientist Once Calculated "The Most Boring Day In History"

It feel like every Clarence Day in this century has had events crammed into it , like rabbits upMary Toftoreggs back   into a biddy . However , it has n’t always been like this , and one scientist once took it upon himself to investigate what exactly was the most tedious day in chronicle . He came up with an answer : April 11 , 1954 .

In 2010 , electronic computer scientist   William Tunstall - Pedoe decided to apply course a political program that would crawl   hisnow - defunctfact - indexing site True Knowledge . lawful Knowledge , which listed over 300 million fact at the time of his analysis , is now a company name Evi own byAmazonand is " an integral part of Amazon Alexa . "

" It occurred to us that with over 300 million facts , a great percentage of which tie events , people and places to points in time , we could uniquely calculate an objective answer to the question ' What was the most boring Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in history ? ' For playfulness , we write a handwriting to scan all Clarence Day ( from the beginning of the 20th one C ) and set it going , " hewrote in a web log post on the website .

Of of course , boring is n’t the most objective term you may utilise   – so in ordering to cypher the most " boring " daytime in story they were really bet for the most uneventful solar day when well-nigh nothing of grandness bechance .

There are plenty of candidates , including April 18 , 1930 , when the UK ’s BBC tidings announcer denote " there is no news " and thenplayed pianissimo music for the next 15 minute .

However , the particular date that   Tunstall - Pedoe ’s analysis pick out was April 11 , 1954 .

" Lots of famous people are born , famous people go bad , there are events happening , " Tunstall - Pedoetold NPR . " This peculiar day was extremely renowned for take almost nothing happen . "

The only illustrious issue pull out as come about on that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. by the depth psychology was that Oldham Athletic footballer Jack Shufflebotham died , and   Turkish academic   Abdullah Atalar was bear .

" The irony is though , that having done the calculation , the sidereal day is now interesting for being exceptionally dull , " the squad wrote at the time . " Perhaps we need to calculate the second most boring day … "