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This is an archive article published on November 27, 2010

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Nothing remarkable happened on that day,according to experts who inserted over 300 million important events of the century into a computer search programme to calculate.

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April 11,1954 was most boring day

LONDON: April 11,1954 was the most uneventful and boring day of the 20th century. Nothing remarkable happened on that day,according to experts who inserted over 300 million important events of the century into a computer search programme to calculate. According to search machine True Knowledge,on that day a general poll was held in Belgium,a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer died. Apart from that nothing much happened. The machine was developed by a Cambridge University technologist.

Stallones porn movie to be re-released

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood superstar Sylvester Stallones porn star past has come back to haunt him as a adult movie featuring the action icon is set to be re-released. The 64-year-old actor had acted in a porn film The Party at Kitty and Studs when he was a struggling actor,strapped for cash in 1970. He went on to acquire stardom with the 1976 hit Rocky and the porn film hit shelves with a new name The Italian Stallion soon after Stallones break-out role in the boxing classic.

 

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