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I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the search machine known as “True Knowledge,” but it has apparently been fed reams of data and picked April 11, 1954 as the most boring day of the twentieth century. The Times of India reports about this yawn-inducing day. (Thanks Marginal Revolution.) An excerpt:

“Developed by Cambridge University technologist William Tunstall-Pedoe, the Internet search engine reached its lofty decision after analysing some 300 million facts about ‘people, places, business and events’ that made the news.

Using complex algorithms, such as how much one piece of information was linked to others, True Knowledge determined that particular Sunday of 1954 to be outstanding in its obscurity.

‘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,’ Tunstall-Pedoe was quoted as saying by the Telegraph.

He said: ‘The irony is, though, that having done the calculation the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring. Unless, that is, you are Abdullah Atalar.'”