It's Dec. 7, 2011.
You have exactly 14 days until the end of the world, according to ancient predictions based on the Mayan calendar.
NASA and the U.S. government have made clear that Apocalypse rumors are false. Thought it has not stopped people from preparing for Earth's imminent destruction.
Keep in mind that doomsday theorists and religious sects have been predicting The End for thousands of years.
Fortunately, all of these dates have come and gone uneventfully.
To maintain your faith that this will also be the case in two weeks when the 21st rolls around, we've compiled 10 other dates when the world was supposed to end, but didn't.
1000 A.D.
Christian authorities believed the new millennium would be the Second Coming of Jesus.
In anticipation of his return, many people disposed of their belongings, left their jobs, and abandoned their homes.
When the date came and went with no apocalypse, folks who thought the end was near realized they had miscalculated Jesus' age and decided the world would actually end in 1033 A.D.
This, as we know, also turned out be a vast miscalculation.
Feb. 1, 1524
London astrologers freaked everybody out when they interpreted the alignment of planets in the constellation Pisces (a fish) to mean the world would be wiped out in a massive flood.
Tens of thousands of people sought refuge on higher ground and some people built arks.
The Great Flood never came.
May 19, 1780
On May 19, 1780, a heavy gloom fell over New England prompting a religious group known as the Shakers to believe Judgment Day had come.
Though the unusual blackened sky, later called the "Dark Day," was most likely caused by a mix of smoke from forest fires and heavy fog, it sent the religious sect on a mission to spread their message of celibacy as the path to redemption.
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