On This Day in Weird, May 21...
2011: American evangelist Harold Egbert Camping, president
of Family Radio, predicts the return of Jesus on this date, drawing 3 percent
of Earth's population to Heaven for "the Rapture," followed by five
months of tribulations, destroying the planet completely on October 21. When
Jesus fails to arrive on schedule, Camping changes his story, saying that a
"Spiritual Judgment" occurred on May 21, setting the stage for a
simultaneous Rapture and end of the world on October 21. A stroke on October 16
spares Camping from further public humiliation, as relatives announce his
retirement from the ministry.
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