14 Tiny Whoopsies That Changed History
Sometimes, the world changes because someone slips on a banana peel and hits the red button.
![14 Tiny Whoopsies That Changed History](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/1/763001_320x180.jpg)
Sometimes, the world changes because shadowy figures conspire in a room. Other times, it happens because someone slips on a banana peel and hits the red button. Today, we're talking about the second thing.
![A BEER SHORTAGE DECEMBER 1620 CRACKED After three months at sea, the Mayflower ran out of beer, So the Pilgrims went ashore at Plymouth. Had they sail](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/8/762988.jpg)
Source: Boston Herald
![SOME CLOUDS AUGUST 1945 CRACKEDCO It turned out to be cloudy one day in Kokura, Japan, so the US decided not to bomb that site of a huge munitions fac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/6/762996.jpg)
Source: NY Times
![A LIGHTNING BOLT JULY 1977 CRACKED GO A lightning strike on a transmission line caused 1977's famous NYC blackout. Looters damaged .600 stores. The up](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/7/763057.jpg)
Source: Slate
![75 CENTS 1986 CRACKED.COM A sys admin at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory noticed a 75-cent discrepancy in the books. He poked around and found i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/8/762998.jpg)
Source: NY Times
![A SHOP BURNING 1924 LEGO IEGO LEGO LEGO LEGO CRACKED cO L 15O Ole Korn Christiansen's carpentry shop burned down, so he built a much bigger one. This](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/3/762993.jpg)
Source: Washington Post
![A PAINT FLECK DECEMBER 1981 CRACKEDCON When the Hubble telescope was being constructed, a microscopic chip of paint flaked off a measuring rod. The ro](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/5/762995.jpg)
Source: BBC
![THESE PIPES APRIL 1992 CRACKED COM The way a contractor laid water pipes in Guadalajara, Mexico, flattened the city in 1992. The zinc-coated pipes ran](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/2/762992.jpg)
Source: Washington Post
![A DROPPED BOX NOVEMBER 2004 CRACKEDCON Two employees in a Denmark fireworks factory dropped a box. Somehow, the friction from the drop was enough to s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/7/762997.jpg)
Source: UPI
![THIS NOVEL 1907 Friday, the Thirteenth THOMAS WILLIAM LAWSON CRACKEDCO Thomas Lawson wrote this book about a stockbroker who chooses Friday the 13th t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/1/763061.jpg)
Source: CNBC
![THIS OTHER NOVEL 1869 Library Abit THE A COMPLETE FIRST CLASS STORY IN EACH NUMBER. EANTL Vol I DORTE & CO. ehithae Bope Stret. o Tork. No 40. BUFFALO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/7/762987.jpg)
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
![A TYPO FEBRUARY 2009 Google CRACKEDCON A Google programmer typed a slash by mistake when adding websites to the malware registry. All website URLS use](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/9/763059.jpg)
Source: CNet
![ONE SIGNAL LIGHT MARCH 1979 CRACKED A light was faulty at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor. As a result, a valve remained open without any warnin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/1/762991.jpg)
Source: Department of Energy
![SOME CIGARS SEPTEMBER 1862 Ke H tii fu paym Thi adehi witl Ln ke i out triypels fsbuy He Pli He rn porL eu hed Ihe bpsninr bnn. CAatre fr AA Oha, CRAC](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/8/763058.jpg)
Source: National Parks Service
![A METEOR OCTOBER 312 No, not the one that hit the dinosaurs. We're talking about one the emperor Constantine saw during the Battle of the Milvian Brid](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/4/762994.jpg)
Source: BBC