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Answer: Douglas Corrigan

Corrigan claimed to be the victim of navigational error due to heavy cloud cover. He had previously been denied permission to make the New York to Ireland flight and before his "error" had made some modification to his plane in preparation for a transatlantic flight, so, was it navigational error or a way to make the flight he wanted without getting into too much trouble? If it was anything other than a mistake, Corrigan never admitted it.

Answer: Andres Escobar Saldarriaga

On July 2, 1994, only a couple of weeks after his mistake, Escobar was gunned down outside a bar in Medellin. His murderer reportedly shouted the word "Goal" after each of the 12 shots that he fired.

Answer: The Beatles

It isn't actually known which individual made the decision to reject the Beatles. The Beatles were eventually signed to an EMI subsidiary called Parlophone and their records were produced by the label's comedy record producer George Martin. As it turned out, guitar groups weren't quite on their way out after all, and the Beatles did have a bit of a future in show business.

Answer: Mars

The tiny little error was a mathematical mistake. The orbiter was built by Lockheed Martin which provided navigation commands using English units of measurement. Unfortunately, NASA's computers are programmed to use metric units of measurement. The resultant confusion ended up bringing that particular space flight to a rather abrupt end.

Answer: They left the word "not" out of the commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

This edition became known as the "Adulterous Bible" or the "Wicked Bible". Barker and Lewis were fined the equivalent of a month's salary and their printer's license was revoked. King Charles I ordered that all copies of that particular edition be burned, but at least eleven copies have survived.

Answer: Exxon Valdez

Captain Hazelwood was accused of being intoxicated on duty but a trial failed to convict him of that charge. In fact, he wasn't even on the bridge at the time of the accident, having left the wheel house in the charge of Third Mate George Cousins with Able Seaman Robert Kagan at the wheel. Hazelwood did not lose his Master's License as a result of the accident, but he hasn't spent much time as a ship's captain since.

Answer: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Sales of the candy had been slow until they were featured in E.T. Within just a couple of weeks, sales of Reese's Pieces tripled and then continued to climb for several more months. Hershey's executive Jack Dowd (who approved the deal) called it "The biggest marketing coup in history."

Answer: The telephone

William Orton, the president of Western Union, also said of the telephone, "while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial possibilities." Inventor Alexander Graham Bell kept the patent and went on to form his own company: AT&T.

Answer: Babe Ruth

The Babe, originally a pitcher, was moved to the outfield and became a power hitter. He is still top ten or higher in home runs hit (714), batting average (.342), RBI (2,217), slugging percentage (0.690), on base percentage (.474) and several other categories.
The next World Series win by the Boston Red Sox was in 2004.

Answer: Penicillin

Not all blunders are bad. Fleming noticed that there was no bacterial growth around the mold, so the mold must be secreting a substance that inhibited the bacteria. Though Fleming is credited with the discovery, it took the work of Chain, Florey and Heatley to get Penicillin into a form that could be used clinically.