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14 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions

Don’t make too many plans for Saturday, May 21, 2011. According to Family Radio president Harold Camping, the Rapture is happening that day, followed by the complete destruction of the universe five months later.

Clearly, this is not the first doomsday scenario ever predicted. In fact, it’s not even the first doomsday scenario predicted by Camping, who last said that the Rapture was coming in 1994. Will his latest prediction be as spectacularly wrong as the last one? Only time will tell.

Click ahead to see 14 more spectacularly wrong predictions.

By Daniel Bukszpan, Special to CNBC.com
Posted 19 May 2011