Idiot Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History 

What do you think was the worst mistake in human history?

5:49, talks about something that happened in 1977, shows somebody holding a bag with the PlayStation logo.

I don’t think that this channel actually understands wtf history was

It's seriously scary that this video has a positive like to dislike ratio That shows that people are being taught things that are wrong, and they can't tell.

One word: Seriously?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver taking a wrong turn has got to be somewhere near the top of the list

Live long enough and you start to notice how people change the narrative of history to suit their own purposes.

I wouldn't say that the Dutch not colonizing Australia was an idiot mistake. From the way you worded it, it sounded like very logical reasons for not settling Australia.

5:50 ~ Either that's stock footage, or someone discovered time travel and has a Playstation in 1977.

Louis made a whole lot of mistakes long before the Bastille fell. He bankrupted France by helping the Colonists rebel against the Brits in that little thing we like the call The American Revolution. He got rid of all his good advisors; France was dealing with a series of poor harvests; the King and the aristocrats were at each other's throats, etc. Those are just some of Louis XVI's contributions to his own execution. We won't get into the role Louis XV played. He was the one who sowed the seeds of revolution. This video is too pat. Nothing is that simple and on another note: Rommel was no idiot. Thousands of Allies worked tirelessly to make sure the Germans never saw us coming and would be unable to pin down exactly where Allied Troops would land to begin the invasion of Fortress Europa. Christ, the planning alone took place on multiple continents from underground bunkers in England to castle drawing rooms in Spain. I hate when people say, "Do your research", but do your research.

There are so many problems with this video

Watching this video was a mistake.

Didn't know the Doctor was involved in the French Revolution. :eyeroll:

“Bad at math”. Navigates the Atlantic with a Sexton and the stars.

Movie footage from the Dunkirk Battles when talking about D-Day. Well they are both near water.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver took the wrong road in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Gavrilo Princip was waiting, gun in hand, but hesitated and let the car pass. The driver realized his mistake and reversed. Princip fired his pistol, killed Franz Ferdinand and hence started WWI.

"Columbus was the ISIS of his day.." 😂 I have not legitimately laughed out loud so hard in a veeeery long time..

I had no idea that the French Revolution happened at the Royal Navy College in Greenwich! (That was the set for the film shown)

5:52 I didn’t know there was Playstations in ‘77 🤔

The videos for the French Revolution managed to blend movies about the 1848 French Uprising with the 1792 French Revolution, while talking exclusively about the latter.

The cause of the Challenger disaster was clearly demonstrated at the first congressional hearing when an engineer took an O ring, dunked it in a glass of ice water then snapped it showing how brittle and useless the ring was in the cold.

Professor Richard Feyman proved with a glass of iced water that the rubber seals would fail a short time after the Challenger Disaster at an inquest. One of my Junior High clasmates was on Challenger.

I love how joyous rock music is playing in the background

Allegedly, in November 1989, Berlin, in the middle of the night, Erich Mielke, head of the infamous StaSi, confused by conflicting reports, decided to have a look for himself at the nearest border post, and was surprised to find thousands of people passing both ways, when a boarder guard officer stepped up to him, saluted, and announced "Comrade Minister, nothing out of the ordinary!" This guy is my hero. Instead of starting the killing of thousands, he just single-handedly decided that time was up for the GDR. Having the guts to just take the wind out of Mielkes sails all by himself as toppers is just phenomenal.

The person who turned Hitler down from Art School

Nasa knew about the problem and they almost lost the shuttle discovery earlier in the year due to the same issue. The Rogers Commission Report is a fascinating account of the tragedy.

What a Zinn analysis. People were of their time. The positioning of modern analysis and applications of current societal standards is the weaknesses of this marginal abstract.

Smh at The Challenger clip. It could have been prevented. I keep seeing the image of the teacher's parents looking up in the sky after the explosion.

Australia was claimed in 1788.......do your research next time Signed "Unimpressed Australian"

They should’ve add the Gallipoli landings on this video England got so many Australians and New Zealanders killed all because they thought they knew what they were doing

That trip at 4:10 😂 almost played it off too

Love your videos, Tokin up and just binge Grunge!

The biggest mistake was wasting my precious time on this half baked video

Anyone that just repeats the popular lemming fud about Columbus just proves their ignorance. How about you research it further than just watching Adam Conover spout his bs?

the butterfly effect is like compound interest the grows over time

There was another reason that King Louis XVI's and Marie Antoinette's attempted escape from France failed -- the King's fondness for food. King Louis loved to eat. Not only did he consume four gigantic meals a day, but his servants followed him around the palace bearing trays full of snacks, and he always carried apples in his pockets. He grew so fat from all this food, that people called him "the walking stomach." Some historians have suggested that it was because the King ate so much that there was hardly any food available for the poor people of France, including bread, which was one of the most common staples of the French diet. This is supposedly what led Queen Marie Antoinette to make her legendary statement that if the people had no bread, "Then, let them eat cake." (Actually, this story is a myth; there's no proof that the Queen ever said anything of a sort; in fact, the statement existed long before Marie was even born) This alleged callousness on the part of the King and Queen is considered one of the many causes of the French Revolution. In any case, when the Royal Family tried to flee from the revolutionaries who intended to do away with them, the King, every now and then, would insist that they should stop by the roadside so they could have a picnic, and this proved to be their undoing, because the Revolutionary soldiers were able to track them down -- by following the trail of debris left over by the picnics! If King Louis had thought more about his family's safety than he did about his appetite, there's a good chance that they all would have made it out of France (perhaps even out of Europe) alive and unharmed, and neither the King nor the Queen would have ended up on the guillotine. Thus, the subsequent course of French history might have been quite different, but of course, we may never know.

Y'all got the 1986 Space Shuttle information wrong too. It was Bob Ebeling that came out in the 1986 Congressional and Rodger's investigations and publicly stated that the O Rings would not hold in a cold temp launch below 40 F. Ebling and Roger Boisjoly were the two engineers that tried to get the launch stopped. He even first refused to watch the launch, until a friend talked him in to watching it. His friend even tapped him on his shoulder and said something like "We pulled another one off" just before it exploded. He went on NPR and stated that he still felt responsible for the Challenger accident. But he first went public with the O ring information back in 1986 not 30 years later. All that information is easily found and you can probably find the 1986 commission and Congressional videos of Ebling and Boisjoy testifying about the problems with the O rings. He even talked about the memo he sent up warning about a cold launch and the possibility of an O ring failure back in 1985 and they could only qualify the O rings down to 54 F, not at the 18 F that the temp was on the day of the launch. More like this video is one big mistake. Sorry guy, but do a little research on the facts before posting. We have enough fake B/S out there now to deal with.

1:01 Depicts Louis XIV not XVI.

I love the Tim and Eric clip! They are brilliant!

Dude the BGM is rockin'!

I really love it when I don't have to watch the video, because the whole script's been put in the description

The Challenger blowing up is one of those moments in time that I'll remember for the rest of my life where I was at and what I was doing. It's like 911 or the assassination of Martin Luther King jr. Or JFK it's such a pivotal moment in history that it's seared in people's brains and I'll always remember where they were or what they were doing what they were talking about specifics of that day and how they felt when they heard it. My mom always talked about MLK's assassination in JFK's assassination cuz she remembers those specifically and remember where she was and what she was doing at the time which was school. As for me the Challenger explosion I was in Elementary school passing out cupcakes because it was my birthday. Each classroom had a TV in it and this whole school was watching the launch because of the teacher of course. I can still remember how devastating it felt just watching it happen watching my teacher yet upset in tears the principal going room to room it was a crazy time

FWIW, the fact that the relevant engineers were no go for launch of the Challenger, and were overruled, has been known ever since that time.

Columbus: "according to math that only I can understand"

Wait.... the had PlayStations in the world 1977?? 5:50

This dude insulted and threw more shade at Columbus than a high ranked Nazi.

Fantastic footage of the... 2003 northeast blackout. And a quarter of the footage was of Toronto. Namely, the CN tower and TTC spokesperson. Nice.

Christopher Columbus was the Isis of his day? Lost me.

The oil spill is why my family has never used Exxon. we boycott it at all costs.

Wow. The fall of the Berlin Wall was a "Mistake" and Hip-hop is a "Good thing". No wonder we're going to hell in a hand basket.

Joseph Hazelwood literally took the fall for what was a disaster caused by Exxon's upper management. Although "The Captain" is ultimately responsible for whatever happens on his ship, he was off duty when he was plastered in his cabin, asleep. The management had everything to do with the non-functioning ship's radar (it had been out of service for 11 months). Also the third mate was required, or "strongly encouraged" to refuse piloting service when entering Prince William Sound. And, by the way, all those billions supposedly awarded to the Alaskan Natives who were made destitute by the spill? Appeal after appeal has whittled away at the total to where it is a mere fraction of what the jury awarded!!

So Underrated Channel

Hmmmmm, so like most historical turning points, the fall of the Berlin Wall can be blamed on ineffective management...

Christopher Columbus - I am 60 and back when I was in history class, when they still TAUGHT history, we were taught that Christopher Columbus shortened the distances on purpose to make the trip seem less daunting and hence more likely to get funded. He also lied to the crew so they would not become fearful of sailing over the edge. Yes, it was a plot on the part of Christopher Columbus. Space Shuttle - I was living and working in Huntsville, AL when the Challenger exploded. Everyone that I knew was told to lock up all the papers on any Shuttle related projects on that mission. It was known very shortly there after, NOT 30 YEARS after, that two Morton Thiokol engineers were on the phone from 2:00 am until 4:00 am trying to get the launch stopped. The Grunge channel seems to get lots of little details WRONG.

It didn't take three decades for the cause of the space shuttle disaster to come out. We knew about engineers from Morton-Thiokol telling NASA about the O-ring problem and trying to stop the launch within a few days. It was a mistake, a big-fat bureaucratic one, but something we have known about for many years. Of course, like all bureaucratic mistakes, nobody responsible was ever punished.

“Great” song choice for the tragic events

Some things in this video is realy oversimplified!

Good grief this is intellectually sophomoric.

7:00 Long before "Ebeling's confession" in 2016, Challenger: The Untold Story a.k.a. Challenger: Countdown to Disaster, was a 2006 documentary all about Morton Thiokol engineers warning NASA that Challenger was likely to explode at temperatures below 54°F (12°C). At 1:00:40 Gerald Mason, told Robert Lund "You need to take off your engineering hat, and put on your management hat." (ie. this will possibly cost Morton Thiokol the billion dollar contract that is in negotiations.) Joe Kilminster then tells NASA's Larry Malloy, who was the one REALLY putting the pressure on the engineers to reverse themselves, "the data predicting blow by is inconclusive". They knew that during flights 51-C & 51B, (January & April 1985) fuel had escaped from the O rings, but there wasn't an ignition source to light the fuel, so they didn't explode. Testing of the O rings showed that they weren't reliable, even at room temperature. The really sad thing is that the only reason that O rings were necessary was so that the rocket boosters could be manufactured in sections for shipping from Utah by train, rather than one solid piece like the large external tank, shipped by sea. Unfortunately the engineers were arguing data and evidence, instead of psychology. Once they saw that the dangers were being ignored, they should have said, "Anyone knowing the facts and still agrees to launch, should grab a pistol, walk into the astronauts' dorm, and shoot all 7 of them in the head, because your decision is going to kill them just the same".

The Fact you would even Include Irwin Rommel on the List,And Used His Face as the thumbnail shows how idiotic the Researchers are.Rommel was a Tactical Genius Who Pushed the Allies All over North Africa,Designed the Whole ATLANTIC WALL DEFENSE & Was involved to a Point in the Plot To Kill Hitler.He was implicated and while other Plotters were Executed indiscriminately,Rommel was (Allowed) to commit Suicide,Saving his Family.And Given a State Funeral as a Hero.He was injured and went on Leave,He didn’t just Run off to celebrate his wife’s B-Day with an impending invasion.Hitler was the Idiot who couldn’t be awoke as the Invasion started.Thus keeping a few Panzer Divisions in Reserve instead of deploying them to push the Allies back into the Sea. If it wasn’t for Hitlers’ Need to Control every aspect,With no clear chain of Command,And the inability of Senior Staff to make decisions,We could very well be speaking German Right Now.

Thank you for this great work of FICTION!!!

Columus wasn't bad at math, he took Copernicus' estimate for the size of the easy rather than the ancient Greeks. He also want a terrible person, he actually tried to stop the Spanish enslaving people. He even cut off f the hands of men who abuse native women, which for the time was enlightened.

Nothing about Franz Joseph's assassination?! In 1914 Franz Joseph, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was making a tour in what is now Bosnia. As he was in Sarajevo, there was a bomb attempt which he escaped, but which injured the people in the car behind him. After giving a speech at the City Hall, he asked to be taken to the hospital where the injured were. The limo driver got confused, turned into a side street. He had to back down the side street to get back on the main street. This was long enough for Gavrilo Princep, another conspirator, to shoot both Franz Joseph and his wife. This resulted in Austria declaring war on Serbia which brought Germany into the war, which brought Russia to declare war on Germany, which caused France to declare war on Germany. This was the beginning of WWI.

Love the Dr Who clips referring to Marie Antoinette

Britain didn't get Australia becauze they were genius and thought they would profit off of it though. They got it to use it as a prison colony, that they later discovered it could be much more valuable was pure luck so given the knowledge of the time it is not that strange the Dutch never settled it given their focus on spice trade.

The indigenous being friendly with the colonists

Christopher Columbus was not the ISIS of his day. He was a man of courage and vision who overcame many personal obstacles to achieve the discovery of the western hemisphere and open the doors to civilization and settlement.

It wouldn't have mattered if Rommel had been in Normandy on D-Day since Hitler had kept control of the Panzer divisions that could have destroyed the invasion. When Rommel called to ask for control of the Panzers Hitler was asleep and no one would wake him

The story about Rommel or Ranond as called in English is very inaccurate, the d day landing would have taken place anyway and Ranond could not have been able to stop it, he went home in pretend to go for his wife birthday but the truth was that he was in a plot to topple Hitlar that failed!

Doctor Who had nothing to do with the French Revolution.

Columbus was not the monster that recent generations have portrayed him to be. He was no angel but many of his contemporaries were far worse. He was a product of his time, a time where human life was much more expendable.

Rommel did have a habit of being somewhere else when things kicked off. He was not there when the British attacked at El Alamein, nor was he there when Patton attacked in Tunisia. So not being therefor D-Day should not be a surprise.

Grunge indeed. Not just PC, historically fallacious.

Playstation logo on bag from footage of 1977 blackout. Obviously not real footage.

So the clockwork men from Dr. Who were really there??? Wow, the historical reliability of this clip amazes me.

Imagine you being the person that was the cause fucking up a huge part of the ocean

3:55 he cared about his wife, good guy

June 6th was Rommel's wife's birthday--too strange for fiction.

Thanks Barry.

Lowkey, this background music is a banger

Playstation bag in 77, either you used footage of another incident or that lady is a time traveler.

Worst mistake: The Invasion of the Soviet Union.

The New York blackout reminded me of Escape from New York. 😅

Christopher Columbus was a great pioneer and a courageous explorer. Great men like him should not be villified, they should be celebrated. You cannot hold the man accountable for the time period he was born in. But you can credit him with helping to make the world a better place and advancing the progress of humanity.

I would like to set the record straight for the Exxon Valdez. 1. The reason the ship was under staffed was the head of the tanker fleet at the time was a man named Rawles. Rawles decided that these ships DID NOT need the 12 people on board that loaded and unloaded the tanker at the different ports and the crew that drove and maintained the ship could load and unload the ships. This put additional strain on the reduced crews which lead to the hours of work been extended by the people that were originally only supposed to drive the boat. Hazelwood had spent most of the day helping with the loading of the boat and there were a number of delays and problems with this loading cycle. 2. Hazelwood was going to take the Valdez out in the morning after a proper rest period with a rested crew. Now we come to the next part of this screw up. Hazelwood was ORDERED out of port in the late afternoon by the then CEO of EXXON. Who was the CEO at the time well guess what Rawles had been promoted to that position and since he had SO MUCH experience running the tanker fleet he thought he knew better than the captain of the Valdez. Hazelwood protested this order on the grounds that he was clocked out on the number of hours he could continue to safely work as well as most of the crew which were in the same clocked out condition. The ONLY member of the crew left was the THIRD mate so that poor bastard took the boat out. Rawles was pushing for a speedy departure because if the Valdez DID NOT arrive in California in three days the refinery there would have to shutdown from lack of feed stock causing millions of dollars of lost production. Hazelwood had every right to NOT WORK over his extended work day because there had just been a bad incident where the crew of another Exxon tanker went over there maximum hours in the day and that crew was hung out to dry because of it. 3. Another reason that Hazelwood DID NOT want to leave at night was the glacier in the Prince William Sound was calving ice bergs and on the way in to the port the tanker HAD to avoid these bergs by sailing out of the channel. The third mate was doing the same thing hoping that the Coast Guard would warn him if he was sailing into harm. The Coast Guards radar for Prince William Sound had not been working for over 2 months at the time of the accident. Hazelwood also wanted to leave in the morning because the tide would have been going out and the rocks the Valdez ended up on would have been visible instead of just under the water at high tide. 4. Most of the oil spill equipment that had been stationed at Valdez port had not been maintained properly and the boats used to deploy it were in need of repair and replacement. Most of the personnel originally trained in this oil spill equipment had gone on to other employment and the staff that replaced them were NEVER properly trained in it use. So instead of a rapid response to contain the spill there was no response that could make a difference. by the time replacement equipment was flown in it was too late to stop the massive oil spill. For a day and a half after the tanker went a ground the conditions in the sound were almost dead calm and the lack of working equipment and trained crews allowed for the oil to continue to flow into the water. There were NO salvage tugs in the area that could haul the tanker off the rocks and those had to come from Seattle which took 4 days to arrive on site. Today there are two massive tugs stationed at Valdez fo rapid response and these tugs escort the tankers in and out of the sound. So how do I know about this I was working for another Exxon facility in another country. The head office actually contacted EVERY Exxon facility across the world and started demanding all of the oil spill equipment be sent to the Valdez disaster. They were going to take our equipment and shutdown a 4 million dollar a day facility because we would not be able to operate our field without that protection. It went as far as putting our equipment into containers and getting it ready to ship when somebody actually did the math and stopped the stupidity. The head office went out and bought new oil spill equipment which was sent to the disaster site but like I said it was way too late regardless.

The NYC black out . . . that was my time machine experiment. Anything happen while I was gone?

Harald Jäger: "Hey sir, there are people storming the Berlin wall and are trying to take it down." Higher Up: "Nah bro you're just a coward for overselling the probable situation." Harald Jäger: "Bet."

Dumb attacks on Columbus. He was much more of a mixed bag than you say. Lightweights.

Columbus was a great man for the times, and if he did not make his voyage, none of the people who work at Grunge would exist. The fact that you have to start off by calling him a terrible person instead of just pointing out his mistakes speaks volumes.

Look what happened when New York lost power for just 25 hours.... imagine if we lost power for a year? DOOMSDAY!

If you think about it, The Dutch might be able to turn the Deserts of Australia into a lush Farm Valley filled with Vineyard the way South Africa is.

For D-Day the biggest mistake was the Germans were duped into thinking the Allies would land in the Pas-de Calais are not Normandy? Rommel was good, but one General being there in Normandy might not have had a difference as this suggests.

5:49 1977? That's a PlayStation

That footage is clearly not of 1977. Someone is holding a Playstation bag at the 5:50 mark. LOL

5:51 that Play Station bag does not belong there

1. Operation Barbarossa 2. The fact the dark ages happened 3. The Vietnam War

What about Chernobyl 4th reactor explosion that was massive mistake and i would say one the worst thing`s to happen.

Operation: Barbarossa

2:28 you mean the Texas mile LOL!!!

I like the title of this video. I'm not sure about the channel, but the title is good.