Who: Pat Robertson, who in a 1980 broadcast of "The 700 Club" said "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world."
How he came by that date: Robertson has said that God told him about pending disasters on numerous occasions (including a West Coast tsunami in 2006, and a terrorist attack in 2007 鈥 neither occurred). "鈥 he has said. 鈥淪ometimes I miss.鈥
What actually happened: The world didn't end in 1982, but "WKRP in Cincinnati," did.