Worst week in the history of the world?

[DeezNuts]

Worst thread in the history of the forum?

I think the week that asteroid hit the earth and started an ice age was the worst week.

[Dids]

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This thread rocks because I have always held this opinion too. Birfday is tomorrow.

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Are you and your mom going to make fun of some cripple kids to celebrate?

[bwana devil]

April 15, 1947 - Jackie Robinson made his major league debut

April 15, 1945 - Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated.

April 17, 1970 - The Apollo 13 astronauts safely splashed down after their near-disastrous flight.

April 18, 1775 - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution.

April 18, 1923 - The first game was played in Yankee Stadium.

April 20, 1912 - The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park.

April 20, 1970 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.

[NU Star]

In general, I'm sure you can find a lot more terrible [censored] that happend some other week (or even that week), but if you narrow it down to just the last 300 years in America, I still think there are probably worse weeks. Start with beginning of civil war, 9/11, Pearl Harbor, or some other major event and work from there. Also, Hitler being born and the Titanic sinking are a little bit of a strech for the American thing, IMO.

Here's a small list I started (w/o the American clause):


December 24, 1865 Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
December 25, 0 Jesus Born
December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

[rutang]

now that it has been clarified as America, I'd guess that the first week of November has a lock on it.

Andrew Jackson Elected President
FDR Elected President
<insert random jackass president you don't like here> elected president.

Hell, i haven't even looked to see what other nightmarish stuff happened that week. It seems like a fresh disaster every four years or so on that week.

[bwana devil]

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December 25, 0 Jesus Born

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you and doc brown know this is a made up birthday though, right?

[iMsoLucky0]

I think the thread would've been much better if it were about people noticing stuff around their birthdays but I definitely suck at teh oot and won't start any more threads as my penance.

Nustar's post is what I was looking for. Is the topic of worst week really that disinteresting? I was just throwing out this week because I've noticed it and it does have quite a bit of awful stuff, and I was curious if others have noticed the same around their birthdays since I'm not the only one to have noticed it around this week. I wasn't sure if that was because the week is really awful, or just because of perception.

[SL__72]

What about the first week of July?

Gettysburg - July 1-3, Worst battle in the Civil War

The Battle of the Somme - Started on July 1st, worst battle in WWI and the bloodiest day of the war. This battle resulted in a combined >1 Million Casualties.

The Battle of Kursk - Started July 5th, worst battle of WWII. Almost a million casualties in this one, including about 250,000 Soviet deaths.

/edit no thats not when my birthday is!

[bwana devil]

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Columbine

Hitler was born


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also to note, as some of you know colubmine wasnt coincidentally planned for that week. it was plotted for hitler's birthday. not to take away from OP's point. just that it's not a random coincidenc.e

[JaredL]

OP,

Are you familiar with the Hillsborough Disaster?