The Most Boring Day in the 20th Century

Boredom!  The Princess Who Never Smiled, by Viktor Vasnetsov

A computer program named True Knowledge has calculated the most boring day in history, or at least, in the 20th century. That day is April 11, 1954.

True Knowledge, the creation of William Tunstall-Pedoe, came to that conclusion when fed some 300 million facts about "people, places, business and events" that made the news.  Reportedly, on April 11, 1954, a Sunday, a general election was held in Belgium, Abdullah Atalar, a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer called Jack Shufflebotham died. Aside from that, according to the software, nothing much happened.

Tunstall-Pedoe said: "Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and, although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one who might make that claim - Abdullah Atalar, a Turkish academic.  "The irony is, though, that - having done the calculation - the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring. Unless, that is, you are Abdullah Atalar.