
Remember a few years ago when the Large Hadron Collider at Cern was set to go online. Insane people that had little or no information were sure that it would cause a black hole to appear and destroy Earth. That was 2008. Time Magazine Article

For a long time people have been saying that because the Mayan calendar ends December 21st, 2012, it must mean that's when the world will end. Maybe the guy chiseling the calendar into stone got bored and went to go see a good sacrifice.

Or this

Penn and Teller's show had a great episode about how throughout history there have been tons of predictions by people calling for the end of the world.
Here's a site that has over 200 past/failed predictions of the end of the world. Be warned, the website appears to be stuck in 1996.
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