April 11, or The Most Boring Day of the 20th Century
Zodiac Sign Aries
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Aries, April 11. The mysterious personalities celebrating their birthday on this day embody a curious combination of sensitivity and bravado.
Although at first glance you are full of energy and enthusiasm, on the inside you are more a dreamer than a doer.
However, endowed with incredible idealism and a generous heart, you find yourself in the forefront of fighters for social justice, sympathizing with the problems of others.
Full of original, unusual ideas, gifted with a rich imagination, you are part artist, part prophet.
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Aries men born on April 11:
- can be proud of the following traits:
- confidence,
- dedication,
- ambition,
- competitiveness,
- bright,
- charismatic,
- active,
- self-confident,
- distinguished by an extraordinary temperament,
- constantly captivated by plans and ideas.
Aries women born on April 11:
- are not like others with such differences of nature:
- activity,
- honesty,
- independence,
- always on the move,
- doing a thousand things at once.
- As a freedom-loving sign, she values independence and pride in the opposite sex.
Main event
The most boring day of the 20th century
Analyzing 300 million facts using a new computer search engine, the experts found out that on that day there were no key news, events, births or deaths of famous people.
The best that the program was able to collect on this day was the general election in Belgium, the birthday of the Turkish scientist Abdullah Atalar and the death of British football player Jack Shaflbotam.
This is not the only time when some day was different from the absence of events.
According to BBC Radio on April 18, 1930, was secretly recognized as one of the most boring days of the 20th century, after the leader announced at 18:30 that "there is no news for today".
Holidays
Liberation of Prisoners of Concentration Camps Day
Buchenwald was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. It was created in 1937 in the vicinity of Weimar, for 8 years of existence of the camp about 239 thousand people were its prisoners, of which more than 50 thousand were tortured or executed. During the years of the Second World War, 18 million people passed through the death camps, of which 5 million were citizens of the Soviet Union.
Worldwide Day to Combat Parkinson’s Disease
In days close to this date, in different regions of Ukraine, on the initiative of specialists who take part in helping patients with this severe pathology, primarily neurologists, meetings with patients and their relatives are held.
Also on April 11...
1755 - James Parkinson was born, an English doctor. In 1812 he first called the cause of death in appendicitis inflammation of the appendix, and five years later described the "shaking palsy", which is now called Parkinson's disease.
1882 - One of the first alarm clocks was patented in the USA. The model of the invention was not for physically weak people. At a given time, two dozen wooden blocks fell on the sleeping man. History is silent about exactly what size the bars were, but judging by the fact that the alarm clock did not catch on, it can be judged that this morning procedure was not enough pleasure.
1899 - Spain transferred the island of Puerto Rico to the United States of America.
1909 - Tel Aviv is founded - the capital of Israel. The city received its name only a year later.
1914 - Norman McLaren was born, Canadian film director and artist (originally from Scotland), founder of Canadian animation.
1915 - The United States released a film with Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp", where the character first appeared who became Chaplin's "business card".
1919 - The International Labor Organization (ILO) was established in Paris in accordance with the Versailles Peace Treaty under the League of Nations, the purpose of which was to promote the principles of social justice, internationally recognized human rights and rights at work.
1951 - English police discovered the Skune Stone, stolen in December 1950, the national shrine of Scotland, stored in Westminster Abbey since 1296. So, for a moment: Skunsky stone is a large block of sandstone weighing 152 kg.
1953 - Andrew Wiles was born, an American mathematician, who wiped the nose of all mankind, proving the last theorem of Fermat.
1961 - Bob Dylan made his debut in a joint concert with John Lee Hooker in New York.
1963 - "The Beatles" released the single "From Me to You", which became their first song to take first place in the English charts.
1990 - Astronomers of the Arizona Observatory named the four asteroids discovered by them after the names of members of the legendary British group The Beatles.
1992 - the world's largest barracuda weighing 38.5 kg was caught in the Pacific.
1998 - in California, American Edwin Sirko laid 545 dominoes on one vertical domino (a world record).
1999 - New Zealander Mike Morel set a world record, reading a lecture for 25 consecutive hours.
2001 - Scientists discovered the schizophrenia virus. Scientists have found that the frequency of occurrence of antibodies to the virus in the blood is more among those who suffer from panic disorders. The virus is also found in chronic fatigue syndrome. It is encouraging that some researchers doubt the reliability of test results.
2008 - The Newseum Museum of Journalism and News opened in Washington in a newly rebuilt building.
2011 - an explosion occurred at the station "Oktyabrskaya" Minsk metro. 15 people died, 203 suffered. This is the only terrorist attack in the history of the Minsk Metro and the second in Minsk during the history of independent Belarus since 1991. Identified the organizers of the attack sentenced to capital punishment. The sentence is enforced.
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