facts first presents 15 biggest mistakes
that changed history
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number one the Berlin Wall the reason
the Berlin Wall came down is that East
German politician Luther Przewalski's
didn't word a speech properly in 1989 he
held a press conference so that he could
go over some minor revisions to the
travel code the way he worded his speech
gave the public the idea that the travel
restrictions had been removed completely
when a reporter in the crowd heard this
he asked when the changes were going to
take effect not knowing that people
didn't understand what he said he told
them that the changes would take effect
right away when the press ran the story
travelers swarmed the border and
demanded passage through rather than
allow a full-blown riot to occur the
authorities decided to go ahead and let
the wall come down number 2 a missing
key caused the Titanic to sink if it
weren't for a missing key the Titanic
may never have sunk not long before the
ship sank the ship's second officer
david blair was replaced with Charles
Lightoller who was more experienced when
Blair left his post though he forgot to
give light roll or the key to the locker
where the binoculars were held on the
night the ship sank fred fleed was the
lookout he claimed that if he would have
had binoculars he would have seen the
iceberg sooner and they could have had
the ships Direction changed in time
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number three the missing Mars climate
orbiter
the team that built the Mars climate
orbiter in 1999 was called the Lockheed
Martin team when they were building the
thrusters they didn't use the metric
system instead they used the imperial
system and they neglected to let NASA
know that the miscalculation was so
serious that the orbiter went off course
it was so off course in fact that NASA
gave up and they listed the orbiter as
assumed lost and they used the metric
system
or if they'd mentioned to NASA that they
used the imperial system then the
orbiter would probably still be used
today and NASA wouldn't have been out
millions of dollars number for the
failure of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 the
government planned an invasion of Cuba
called the Bay of Pigs the attack was
supposed to be a dual attack with ground
troops and air support working together
when the Pentagon planned the attack
they forgot to take into consideration
the time differences between Nicaragua
and Cuba because of this serious mistake
the fighter jets arrived in the area an
hour late the ground troops couldn't
handle the battle on their own and it
failed this was one of the most
embarrassing and deadly mistakes made by
the Pentagon and the United States
government number five the 1977 New York
City riots in July 1977 lightning struck
the New York con Edison facility which
controlled the power for the entire city
in order to get the power restored one
of the operators had to flip several
switches they also had to be switched in
a certain order
unfortunately the operator missed one of
the switches and Con Ed went offline
completely for over 25 hours because
this happened in July which is one of
the hottest months of the year people
had no air conditioning between that and
the fact that there was no power for so
long New York City became a very
dangerous place to be during those
twenty five hours there was looting
vandalism and arson occurring all over
the city a congressional study was
performed after
the incident and it found there was over
300 million dollars in damages over just
those 25 hours number six the Battle of
Trenton during the American
Revolutionary War George Washington
crossed to the frigate Delaware in the
middle of winter so that they could
defeat the Hessian soldiers who were
holding the town of Trenton a loyalist
farmer saw what was going on and he
wanted to warn the Hessian commander so
he wrote him a note
unfortunately the Hessian commander
Johann Gottlieb Rahl never read the note
when he was killed during the battle the
unopened letter from the farmer was
still found in his pocket and he taken
the time to read the note things would
have been a lot different number seven
the Coconut Grove fire the Coconut Grove
was a very popular nightclub in Boston
in 1942 the club was packed one of the
Busboys needed to find an electrical
outlet in the dark so he lit a match to
help guide his way
unfortunately that match started a fire
that spun out of control within minutes
when the doors were installed during the
building of the club
the builders put them on the wrong side
because of this they swung inward rather
than outward since there were no fire
codes back then there was just no way
out of the club when the patrons rushed
the door they couldn't get it open
because of the stampede of people
pushing into the door they blocked their
own escape from the club and most of
them died had the builders put the
hinges on the other side of the door so
the doors would open outward there would
be a great chance that most of those
patrons if not all of them would have
made it out alive number 8 the explosion
of the de Havilland comet in the 1950s a
state-of-the-art jetliner was designed
called the de Havilland comet in 1954
two of the planes exploded in midair
all 54 people on board died later when
experts studied the wreck to determine
the cause of the explosions they found
that the problem lied with the planes
window
the windows on the plane were square and
there were weak points in the corners
when the planes were in the air they
cracked under the pressure had the
planes developers used round windows it
would never have happened
this is why now all modern airplanes
have round windows number nine when 12
million people lost their phone service
in 1991 phone customers in Washington
Pittsburgh Baltimore San Francisco and
Los Angeles lost their phone service it
was estimated that 12 million people
lost the service the reason the service
went out was due to one tiny stupid
mistake a bail employee was responsible
for controlling the signals that
regulated the phone traffic it was his
job to type in a code instead of typing
the letter D he typed the number six had
the worker paid a bit more attention to
what he was doing the phone service may
not have gone down and millions of
people may not have been so frustrated
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number 10 the stealth bomber crash in
2008 a stealth bomber was being serviced
while it was stationed in Guam the
technician failed to notice that there
was moisture buildup on the air pressure
sensor it was discovered that the air
sensor was responsible for feeding data
to the stealth bombers flight control
system because the sensors were
malfunctioning due to the moisture the
bomber took off prematurely and it
crashed
fortunately the two pilots on board
ejected from the plane in time and they
landed on the ground safely
unfortunately though it cost the US
government a great deal of money 1.4
billion dollars to build the bomber and
it was destroyed when it crashed when
things like this happen
it proves that people in positions like
this should be very careful
number eleven the Hiroshima bombing
Russia sold Alaska to the United States
for 7.2 million dollars unfortunately
there was an error when the deal was
being translated that's what caused the
Hiroshima bombing number 12 the creation
of the wicked Bible two printers named
Robert Barker and Martin Lucas were
printing the King James Bible in 1631
when they printed the seventh
commandment that talks about adultery
they forgot to add the word not making
it sound like adultery was a good thing
the verse read thou shalt commit
adultery according to this version it
was mandatory to commit adultery when
King Charles the first found out about
this error the printers were stripped of
their business license they were fined
also a year's wages and he ordered that
all the copies of that Bible be burned
when the wicked Bibles were destroyed
only eleven of them survived number
thirteen the largest man-made explosion
on record in 1917 the SS IMO a Norwegian
ship was forced to City and Halifax
harbor in Nova Scotia Canada while they
waited for a coal delivery the delivery
was two days late by the time the coal
arrived and the ship was able to leave
the French ship called the ball blanc
was headed through the channel both
ships needed to navigate it to get out
the ship's tried to pass one another
without success and they ended up
crashing into one another the Mont Blanc
was carrying explosives at the time and
when the ships collided they detonated
the harbour and the surrounding city was
devastated due to the explosion of the
15 biggest mistakes that changed history
this incident is a bit different there
were two mistakes that caused this to
occur if the coal had been delivered on
time the boat would never have been in
the harbour and the collision would
never have occurred also if just one of
the ships had changed their course to
travel around the other the collision
never would have occurred
number fourteen the Germans lost at
Normandy in 1944 the Field Marshal named
her when Rommel was in charge of
defending Europe from the Allied
invasion on the weekend of June 6th
Rommel took the weekend off so that he
could celebrate his wife's birthday that
was the day that the Allies landed at
Normandy this is what led to the largest
defeat in World War two it's also known
as d-day and Rommel decided to celebrate
his wife's birthday on a different day
history may have been changed greatly
and our world could be completely
different than it is today number 15 the
destruction of the Soviet and one moon
rocket in 1969 the Soviets launched the
n1 rocket that was to be aimed at the
moon one of the bolts was loose and it
was sucked into a fuel pump
this caused the rocket to explode about
20 seconds into the flight the fireball
created during the explosion was one of
the largest artificial non-nuclear
explosions in human history subscribe
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