Not every mistake gets overlooked. Some of them actually
matter. Some jobs are so crucial that a little mistake in any part of them
could cause a heavy damage. Imagine giving the president of a country a total
different speech to recite on live TV. Several people made mistakes that changed
history and here is a list of 5 of them.
●THE WICKED BIBLE
Published in the year 1631 by Robert Blake and Martin Lucas
of the royal printers in London, the bible was meant to be a reprint of the
King James Version Bible. However, there was just one problem, a mistake in a
very crucial part of the bible, The Ten Commandments. Now, while trying to
write ‘Thou Shalt not commit adultery’, the word ‘not’ was omitted from the
sentence, making it read as ‘Thou Shalt commit adultery’ in Exodus 20: 14 and a
few copies were published and sold. It was not until about a year later that
the publishers were sued, and fined 300 Euros and stripped of their printing
license, while the majority of the copies produced where burnt.
●NASA’S $80,000,000 MISTAKE
In the year 1962, NASA designed an interplanetary probe
called Mariner1 and sent it into space to explore Venus. This was America’s
first inter-planetary probe and it would have been successful. However, there was
a little mathematical error, an ‘over-bar’ supposed to be put above a letter
was omitted. By the time they discovered their mistake, they had already sent
it into space and to avoid destruction, they had to detonate the probe five
minutes after it took off. This probe cost $80,000,000 and till date is still
regarded as one of the most expensive mistakes in history.
●THE HESSIAN’S DEFEAT AT TRENTON
In the 1770’s, there was a battle between the Hessian
soldiers and Washington which held in the town of Trenton. The Hessians however
lost the battle but this could have been averted had the Hessian commander read
the note sent to him by a loyal farmer who spotted the battle move before time
and warned the commander through a note. The note was found unwrapped and
unread in his pocket after he died in the battle.
●THE BERLIN WALL
On November 9, 1989, the spokesman for Eastern Germany
Gunter Schabowski held a conference where he tried to explain some minor
revisions to the travel code. During the meeting, he mistakenly implied that
the wall which have stood for so many years were being completely removed. One
of the reporters on hearing this asked him when the revisions would begin and
he said immediately. This statement caused the press to carry the news about
that the wall was to come down immediately. On hearing the press, a large group
of people gathered around the borders to riot for the cause of the wall to come
down. Instead of dealing with a riot, the authorities allowed the walls to come
down.
●THE TITANIC SHIP
The story of the crashing of the Titanic Ship is well
known. However, few people know that the
ship had no binoculars to spot obstacles from a distance. Just before the ship
sailed, the company replaced the ship’s second officer with a more experienced
one, the first guy however forgot to hand over the keys to the locker that held
the binoculars to his replacement, so they had no access to the binoculars.
News has it that perhaps if the Titanic ship had binoculars, they would have
spotted the iceberg sooner and been able to avoid the crash.
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