MORE BIG MISTAKES

RUSSIA SELLING ALASKA TO THE US FOR 2 CENTS

AN ACRE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS

A USELESS TUNDRA

INCA RULER ATAHUALPA AGREEING TO MEET

CONQUISTADOR FRANSISCO PIZARRO DURING WHICH

200 SPANISH HORSEMAN AMBUSHED AND DEFEATED

80,000 INCA WARRIORS

ALTHOUGH NO ONE IS SURE WHETHER OR NOT THE

TROJAN HORSE ACTUALLY EXISTED, IF IT DID,

IT IS WORTHY OF THIS LIST

FILLING THE HINDENBURG WITH HYDROGEN

SOMEBODY LEAVING A GATE OPEN AND ALLOWING

THE TURKS TO RANSACK CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1453

14TH CENTURY CHINA ABANDONING ITS NAVY AND

PURSUING A POLICY OF ISOLATIONISM. IT ARGUABLY

COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN

ANY EUROPEAN POWER

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND'S DRIVER MAKING A

WRONG TURN THAT LED RIGHT TO THE FEET OF HIS ASSASSIN,

GAVRILO PRINCIP. TWO WORLD WARS THAT COULD HAVE

BEEN AT LEAST POSTPONED BY A GARMIN.

THE JAPANESE ATTACKING PEARL HARBOUR WHEN

NOT A SINGLE US AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS IN PORT