Top 10 Historical Predictions That Actually Came True

[@weirdguy8422]

"10 Historical predictions that actually came truth" Homer Simpson: Hold my beer...

[@PsyJules-r3h]

Weird Guy homer*

[@heggis9050]

Homer*

[@StarForceKid194]

I'm sure he would take it anyways lol

[@ambulance-kun5915]

Has a JoJo pic, doesn't even mention 9/11 prediction of Boingo...

[@weirdguy8422]

Ambulance-kun Joseph survived 9/11

[@mirceatheyoung]

Einstein predicted that technology will make idiots out of people. Hasn't that come true already?

[@Dr.JagCobra]

You know it

[@didierbizimana2759]

Sure bout that?? We are already experiencing shrinkage of ability to memorize things... Even simple things... Talking bout cell phones that are already holding quite a lot bout people

[@8778la]

So True!!

[@Mattt414]

Didier Bizimana that’s true, 90% the people I talk to can’t hold a conversation for 5 minuets

[@Camilavvm868]

You would know 😉

[@bepsterdegi]

did they predict? or did they inspire? something to think about

[@bepsterdegi]

i mean besides mark twains death and the titanic, and maybe the great fire of london

[@debwilli]

bepsterdegi my thought exactly!!

[@jefflee7802]

You bazinga me crayz that is a good question

[@coreyhill681]

That is a good question

[@EddieMachetti]

Yeah that London fire was wildly specific. Lmao

[@brentgranger7856]

Abraham Lincoln's dream about his own death days before it actually happened.

[@heggis9050]

1# the Simpsons predicting that Trump would become president

[@drewcolen7161]

Eirik Heggeli ya because they're all trump lovers

[@PonmonofNuggetor]

EdunchiVEVO In a previous episode, in the future, they mentioned that Donald Trump was president, so they did predict it

[@DarkSoul-ds2]

Eirik Heggeli 2016 wasn't the first time trump ran for president

[@mmafyasco]

Eirik Heggeli THE SIMPSONS DID NOT PREDICT THAT ! THAT LITTLE EPISODE TRUMP WAS ON, WAS *AFTER* HE ANNOUNCED!!!! *STOP PERPETUATING THIS LIE!!!!*

[@SonicStalker123]

Eirik Heggeli simpsons basically predict everything

[@frasersweeney5163]

I want to read that "what will happen in the next 100 years" to see what's true

[@alexifelton1070]

Fraser Sweeney I want to write one for the next 100 years I predict we’re screwed

[@Hecu]

Just write one here if its right someone will surely find it sometime if youtube comments are archived somewhere/exist

[@Niten.]

Sugar ray Robinson , the best boxer of all time , had a dream one day before a fight , in that dream he killed his opponent by a left hook , he tried to cancel the fight , but they didn't hear his request , after a left hook , sugar ray robinson killed his opponent that night , just like his dream , he never was the same after that.

[@tg_516]

Dan Marsh damn is this legit?

[@Niten.]

Totally legit , look for it.

[@MrKristofski123]

Why would he even do left hooks in the fight if he felt so strongly about his dream. I understand that maybe it was the 'best' option at the time but it just seems a bit stupid to do the exact thing he dreamt he would do.

[@Niten.]

+Kris smith It was a boxing fight , it's impossible not use a very specific punch , specially if it was your best punch , fighting without using a left hook is totally impossible ( i practice boxing since 8 y/o. )

[@jamesmiller7228]

its true In 1947, Doyle challenged Sugar Ray Robinson for the World Welterweight Title. Robinson had the advantage in every round except the sixth, when he was staggered twice and hurt. A single left hook from Robinson ended the fight. "That punch knocked Jimmy rigid.... With heels resting against the canvas as if hinged, Doyle's body went down. It struck the floor with a thud, like a rigid mass falling. His head crashed against the padded canvas, and as the referee started the count. Doyle raised his head and rested on his elbows.... The referee counted to ten. Doyle was out." Doyle was taken to St. Vincent's Charity Hospital immediately after the bout, and failed to regain consciousness and died a few hours later.

[@michaelhurley3171]

Tesla, greatest inventor of all time could have given us free wireless electricity too. Man was 500 years ahead of his and our time.

[@monn45888]

You forgot the Halley's Comet prediction, a person named Halley predicted that a comet would pass by Earth in 70 years, which it did.

[@_mason_3962]

That might’ve just been good mathematical solving though.

[@nothing9220]

It was maths... Not prediction

[@respectableaf9061]

The Jetsons predicted Face-Time in the 50's

[@pikachusattack8379]

i called it that you were gonna make another video soon

[@dianaapplehead8815]

pikachus Attack 😭😭😭obvious

[@timothyhouse1622]

That is basically how Nostrodomus made most of his "predictions": Throw enough crap at the wall and something will stick.

[@kingkidyts]

wow so cool your right

[@СнежныйДжони]

OMFG how did you know this!?

[@pikachusattack8379]

Снежный Джони magic

[@Ry-dy8xr]

Y'all missed a huge one:| Ferdinand Foch: "This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years"-1919, at the Treaty of Versailles, the end of W.W.I.

[@JoshCreepa]

As a huge gaming buff, this one actually creeped me out. Deus Ex, a game released in June 2000, was set in New York. You could look at the New York skyline, and something was off. There were two towers missing. Empire State was there, Chrysler Building was there, but the Twin Towers were not. That would be unsettling enough, but the reason why they were missing, as explained IN the game, was that they were destroyed due to a terrorist attack. Over a year later, the Twin Towers got razed due to terrorist attacks, predicted, albeit unintentionally, over a year prior to the horrifying and disgusting events that took place on that fateful day by a video game. Of course Ion Storm said there was NO WAY they would have seen this coming, and stated that the real reason the towers weren’t in the game was due to constraints and they couldn’t code in the towers, but the fact that the excuse they used in the game came true is really unnerving.

[@TakersSoulGirl22]

thats creepy...

[@spongebobsquarepants675]

My prediction was right after all, you read my comment...

[@living_1daat]

That is true

[@paulagrey6013]

😂😂😂

[@Hamburglar96]

True

[@pearsonschannel8493]

including u

[@luismarcialvergaradiaz5363]

Idk what it days, but im not gonna read it

[@DoctorWortspieler]

One nitpick: it's mentioned here that the Titanic had a shortage of lifeboats and life jackets. The former is undeniably true, but actually, the Titanic had an *excess* of life jackets on board, but they didn't do squat to save lives that night because of the freezing temperatures of the Atlantic. And if we're including predictors of technology, I would like to nominate the TV series "Babylon 5" (1993-1998) for having data crystals used to store files of information from computers and transfer them to other computers; in other words, it was a USB flash drive.

[@I9X8I]

babylon 5 is one of my all time favorite tv shows but i cannot agree on this particular idea. storing files and transfering them to other computers was nothing new at this point, they just created a different albeit more potent storage media. and as we do not know anything about the specifications of those crystals we cannot compare them to the flash drives we have nowadays. who knows if we will have portable storage media at all or if it will be something like some version of our nowadays cloud.

[@jaw1489]

Jules Verne also predicted the nuclear submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

[@nathanielenochs1843]

Why is George Orwell not on this list?

[@Shinde425]

I wonder how many of these predictions became true because of the prediction itself? Like they read the book and thought "that's a good idea, let's launch in Florida, guys."

[@Bryce-yw8hf]

Ya one jules vern's story said that the device used to travel into space should be in florida.

[@jsl151850b]

Rocket launches should be as close to the equator as possible as the rotation of the Earth gives the rocket extra speed at no cost.

[@vrushabhbhaskar1348]

I was almost waiting for Leonardo Da Vinci's first working model of a basic helicopter, around 400 years before the first helicopter flew! Sigh.

[@POPINCONEJO88]

Number 1, my mom predicting that my friends will not always be there for me

[@mrghost8739]

Amazing list

[@4thegospel]

I predict that watchmojo is running out of ideas

[@diegorodriguez4435]

4 THE WIN no way

[@YAOmighty]

4 THE WIN More like their fans.

[@declanolivetti4319]

Thiti2000 2nd Channel I predicted this would happen

[@zaksharman6279]

shut up

[@sexydaddydonaldtrump9016]

4 THE WIN and you are right

[@jennygholson33]

I love your voice over miss:)

[@CEngelbrecht]

*_"We do not feel the heat of the stars because they are so far from the Earth. [...] The Moon has no light of its own but derives it from the sun. [...] The Moon is made of Earth and has plains and ravines on it."_* - Anaxagoras, Athens, Greece, ca. 450 b.c.

[@marcoscartasable]

Shit, I better move out of Jersey...🌛

[@chelseahulmston9056]

The sun is a star and we feel its heat.

[@CEngelbrecht]

@@chelseahulmston9056 Yeah, and that's his point, that the stars are distant suns of their own. It Fs me up wondering how in the hell the bloke deduced that two and a half millenia ago.

[@MySerpentine]

@@CEngelbrecht They figured out the size of the Earth from the length of shadows in 240 BC, so something as easy to grasp as 'the sun is just a star up close' was probably known before then.

[@MySerpentine]

They measured the difference between a shadow when the sun was directly overhead and another shadow a set distance away, calculated the change in degree and extrapolated from there. They did have math back then, you know. As for how we get distances between planets, it's usually something similar. For the sun we watched how Venus appears to cross in front of it, and the difference in how that looks depending on where you are on Earth.

[@toreswe]

I think the periodic table is the most impressive of these ones, since it was actually used to find the elements missing in it.

[@fortis3686]

Number 1 George Orwells 1984 predicting mass censorship and mass servalence.

[@itachii267]

Alonzo Aldaba surveillance* ftfy

[@PYC334]

i understand where you're coming from, but he was mostly referring to dictatorial censorship and communism

[@SunritShukla]

Shhh... NSA is watching

[@robertpalatsky5059]

Back to the Future Two was only a year off when they predicted the Cubs would win the World Series 2015. They won it all in 2016

[@CraigMcGuinn]

True…but that prediction wasn’t entirely accurate

[@OnePieceTheorist]

No Jules Verne - 20 thousand leagues under the sea - predicts Submarines ??

[@jango3]

TheMonkeyBusiness agreed, he shouldve been included.

[@The_Str4nger]

submarines exist before that book. Like the Turtle from 1776 in the American Revolutionary War. Or Wilhelm Bauer's Seeteufel (Sea Devil) in 1856

[@Badastro59]

Nuclear powered Submarines, its a great read,

[@jboogie1071]

Every1 knows verne was ahaed

[@jboogie1071]

With rockets and syfy

[@alexandergenev5986]

No Bibble prophecy? Damn .... some of them are so incredible... and happened in an amaizing way...

[@half-lifescientist1991]

#4 was a little off. Wireless did exist in 1909. Ever hear of Marconi Wireless?

[@marguskiis7711]

Marconi borrowed from Farady and Popov more.

[@technicalsupport6573]

No never heard that name but i believe you cz you are a scientist

[@tommiejonsson8952]

SMS- and MMS-messages was possible long before the iPhone entered the scene.

[@technicalsupport6573]

Roger that

[@deadchannel2811]

When someone said that God couldn't break this ship God came back with icebergs DO NOT SAY THAT ABOUT GOD

[@ysmaboy]

-. -

[@UZF3]

John Lennon's death prediction from the man himself should at least be an honorable mention on this.

[@EddieMachetti]

He even says “shoot me” over and over again in Come Together.

[@xalidquliyev1596]

very good 👍😊

[@MaciekMizgal]

Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem (author of "Solaris") predicted e-books and audiobooks in his novel "Return from the stars" published in 1961! :)

[@Lovuschka]

#1 should have also included "Paris in the 20th century", if we talk Jules Verne.

[@bother6254]

Some people say that the iceberg that sunk the titanic tore a hole in the boat. Actually, this is incorrect, considering the natural tendency of solids to curve in flowing water, the iceberg, by just floating at a steady pace, would have already had edges too smooth to tear a hole in a metal ship. But what really happened is one of the curved bumps present on any ice formation, when squeezed with the hull of the ship, popped out the screws holding the metal plates on by folding the plates inward. Considering the fact that this continued throughout almost the entire length of the ship, its not a surprise that the ship sunk so quickly. A head on collision would have been far more terrifying with much more deaths. Tell me what you think, whoever cares about a person's opinion.

[@shaunmattice6413]

My favourite historical prediction was Tzar Paul l warning of events in the 20th century. Basically, he was told of future events and so he wrote a letter to be opened a 100 years from his death in 1801. In 1901, Tzar Nickolas the 2nd and his wife Alexandra opened the letter where it warns the end of the Romanov Dynasty. And that the 20th century would be plagued by war.

[@allys744]

I don’t think they were predictions, but maybe mere coincidences. I mean no one even thought it was possible for the titanic to sink

[@themr.wchannel7687]

My honourable mention: EDM and The future of music - Jim Morrison

[@amiao5284]

Bismarck and World War 1 with starting in the Balkans?

[@EddieMachetti]

Titanic: _(sinks)_ FBI: 🤔 hey Morgan, remember that novel you wrote about a ship sinking? Morgan: I swear it was a coincidence Morgan: _(found dead from an overdose in a hotel 3 years later)_

[@marguskiis7711]

Estonian writer Matthias Johann Eisen (1857-1934) released 1903 a story "What Tallinn will be in the year 2000" where he predicted many right things (disappearance of horses, many cars around etc.) but the most amazing prediction was the "tiny home theatre" where "you can watch shows made in some special at your own home"! It was years before radio and 50 years before TV.

[@jevronfreeman7709]

when you thought you were about to watch an AllTime10s video instead of a Watchmojo video.

[@Lattman460]

It's freaky how accurate Mendeleev's predictions were

[@Compucles]

Not really freaky but a result of amazing pattern recognition analysis. It was brilliant all the same, though.

[@Lattman460]

Compucles true, what an incredible man

[@haroldhorta5589]

or maybe some people read what they said and thought to themselves " hey these are good ideas we should make it happen ".

[@jsl151850b]

That prediction of Television with synchronised sound is doubly impressive as motion pictures didn't have sound yet.

[@noahs.1557]

The whole simpsons writing staff

[@dhenderson1810]

I read the other day that "The Simpsons" made a joke about Donald Trump being President of the USA, because they thought of someone who it would be ridiculous in the role.

[@AtomicSuperior]

i love this channel

[@michaeloptv]

Medelev built the table. He didn’t “predict” it. Props to HG Wells though. Some called him an aposatle to Nostradamus. Also Tesla was a weird man.

[@Kari2025]

The Titanic one is crazy! Dude wrote a book and named the damn thing Titan. What are the odds?!

[@melancholics_7808]

David Bowie predicted the existence of digitally downloadable music

[@jakedesnake97]

Another fact about Robertson: in 1913, he wrote another story in which there is a war between the US and Japan following a surprise attack by the Japanese in the month December. The war is ultimately resolved by powerful bombs.

[@Jimenopolix]

You forgot to include Vincent Price's predictions of "flat screens" from "The Fly"!

[@deniseeulert5220]

About the TV prediction, a reading book my mother had in school, around 1940, talked about modern inventions, and had the statement "Scientists are now working on television. Someday we may be able to sit around the radio and see the pictures, as well as hear them.""

[@dubyah8824]

How about how the Titanic was found? CliveCussler, in his book “Raising the Titanic”, described exactly how the the Titanic was found!

[@EddieMachetti]

2001: A Space Odyssey predicted FaceTime, touch screen tablets, voice activation, etc... they even predicted online chess. The chess game they play in the movie looks exactly like the chess app I use.

[@theunusualdispenser9474]

🤔Bush predicted the 911 😂👌💦

[@nyaalit3894]

no baba vanga did

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

baba vanga also predicted that Europe will cease to exist, among other things

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

85% of her predictions became true

[@Elrko]

Obama did 9/11

[@tammybrown779]

Bush caused it

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

I once heard of a novel written in 1972 (I don't remember the title) about American citizens who are held hostage in an American embassy in a foreign country. Seven years later, American citizens were taken hostage in real life, at the American embassy in Tehran, the capital of Iran. In 1932, there was a book called "Patriotism" that lamented how the United States was reducing the size of its armed forces, even with increasing troubles overseas that could lead to war. The book contained an illustration showing Uncle Sam lying face down in the ocean with a knife in his back, and surrounded by sinking ships, with a rising sun in the background. Since the rising sun has for centuries been the symbol of Japan, many have suggested that this picture was a spot-on prediction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Speaking of which, General Billy Mitchell is said to have also predicted the Pearl Harbor attack, saying that if America continued to cut down on its military preparedness and reject the potential of a well-maintained Air Force, then the country would be attacked by a foreign power in the future "on a Sunday morning." The bombing of Pearl Harbor just happened to occur on a Sunday morning!

[@AmericanActionReport]

Morgan Robertson was a maritime safety expert who, like many of his peers, was concerned that maritime safety regulations weren't keeping pace with the increased size of luxury liners. He wrote "Futility" as a warning of what could happen if the situation weren't corrected. Here's another prediction: In 1899, a British magazine contacted many experts in their fields to ask for predictions for the 20th century. When George Bernard Shaw was asked what playwrights would do in the 20th century, he replied simply, "Write plays." The magazine accused Shaw of not taking the question seriously.

[@rcj.queenie7122]

If they invented it (Mendeleev), how could they predict it. He more so predicted elements rather than the entire periodic table, which he invented.

[@Amariwydd]

the Simpsons predicted 9/11

[@SnifyWisper]

Everyone predicted 9/11.

[@SuperMCModder]

king doge gaming bush did 911

[@Masterplayer1500]

People keep saying they're running out of ideas but I think they've just run out of common ideas and now how to think of things we normally don't even think about or just do some fun ones again.

[@DannyDevitooo]

#1 Donald Trump becoming President. CALLED IT

[@kindleyfever258]

Not according to the polls it was.

[@dawne6419]

Somebody once noted that the moon landing was no real surprise to the science fiction fan, nor was television; after all, they'd been reading about those for decades. What did surprise them was the combination of the two: no one had predicted we could watch the moon landing on tv!

[@ives3572]

Mark Twain and Jules Verne's predictions amazed me the most.

[@IABITVpresents]

0:45 Wait why is "Supermassive Black Hole" is playing in the background??

[@jonathanmaxwell6763]

3: The Great Fire of London; Michael Nostradamus 2: The Titanic Disaster; Morgan Robertson Honorable Mentions: Netflix; Roger Ebert Assassinations of MLK & JFK; Jeane L. Dixon 1: The Moon Landing; Jules Verne

[@chargerdave2046]

I predict someone named Bob will read this on Monday while drinking a large coffee at 2:43 p.m

[@ethancullen7702]

What's the name of the background music?

[@alexandermills9965]

What WatchMojo didn't tell you is that theses people are all wizards and witches who are also 'Seers' from the Harry Potter Universe

[@Tijnob]

can you make a video with the top ten kindest fictional super/heroes

[@aishabowen3381]

I only have 1 tv set. Guess I'm weird...

[@00Klingon]

One of Tesla's big ideas was transmitting power wirelessly using a tesla coil to energize lightbulbs over distance. Had this become a reality, there would have been so much electromagnetic radiation over a city that cell phones and even delicate electronic devices might have been impossible. The good thing to come out of this invention was the tesla coil that is the basis of all radio transmitters even today.

[@wolfsokaya]

Hmm,it seemed to me,that Mark Twain just went back home with that comet. :]

[@tricko8000]

Please make a top 10 The Cure songs!!!

[@Nobodysurvivesevenonebit]

Is it true Titanic is illumimati

[@ChristmasTrax]

nobody survives even one bit Yeah, my dad was the captain of the titanic and he said the Illuminati was involved.

[@quakerwacker8572]

ChristmasTrax dude the captain died on the titanic

[@philipek35]

nobody survives even one bit The Titanic was the largest ship a float at that time and with the most advanced technology out there. Likely an Illuminati invention. But what would it benefit them if it sank? Well, maybe they wanted to make their invention forever part of History and they saw the event as Poseidons triumph over the Titans.

[@Ed-hi3in]

CALLED IT

[@Michael-bk5nz]

Mark Twain's 'prediction' of his death is less impressive than you think when you realize that at the time he said it, it was 1909, less than a year earlier, and that he had been in poor health for years. what he was really saying was that he didn't he would live through the coming year,

[@agustinamaro2445]

notification squad where u at💯🔥

[@kennethdrewary1094]

The BBC showed a drama series that showed survivors coping after a strand of flu killed most of the world, originating in China. That was in the 70s.

[@LLlap]

HG Wells predicted that a bomb explosion would be loud. Amazing!

[@EddieMachetti]

Absolute genius. I predict water will be wet in 2050. We’ll see.

[@averykevin47]

Can't forget Albert Einstein prediction on technology and the human interaction. He quoted "I fear the day technology will surpass the human interaction, we will have a generation of idiots." And it's safe yet sad to say that his prediction/hypothesis was accurate because look at the world/society today. Even the Unabomber predicted what technology would do to the human race and society. Technology plays a big part as to why modern society is so completely 180.

[@JuanPerez-dw5ry]

Did anyone think of Zero Escape, specifically 999, when they talked about the guy predicting the titanic sinking? If not, I recommend it if you don't mind visual novel style with puzzles

[@odeszaa]

That mark twain thing was actually pretty funny

[@teheyepatch]

I was kind of expecting John Brown's prediction of the Civil War to be on here, but I guess those two events were too close together.

[@marguskiis7711]

Er, one mistake here. 1909 the radio was already invented by Marconi! But it was still a heavy and rare machine, so Tesla only predicted that in future everybody will have his/her own radio set.

[@Compucles]

Nostradaumus's predictions are so vague and numerous that the ones he got right were by pure chance.

[@petezAAPete]

Otto Von Bismark predicting WW1

[@rodimus7926]

This would have been ever more amazing if the title was Top 10 Simpsons Predictions That Actually Came True

[@atheistleopard618]

I predict a million people will eventually end up watching this video.

[@marcjameswhelan]

Wrong so far

[@atheistleopard618]

@@marcjameswhelan i also predict a dickheaded asshat will imply im wrong...lmao...

[@legoworksstudios1]

Bob Marley predicted his own death and Lincoln had a dream about his own assassination

[@TheCluelessOne022]

I thought Ray Bradbury would at least be a honorable mention since he predicted flat screen TVs and ear buds in Fahrenheit 451.

[@okamijubei]

Lil'RedCorvette022 well wireless ear set communicator to be more specific.

[@TheITTman]

I'm calling it now, Watchmojo will make another top 10 anime girls video.

[@doziaye]

*Time to predict myself graduating!*

[@meeeeemumusic]

Top 10 Top 10 Top 10 WatchMojo Top 10s.

[@woody2066]

What about 10 movie directors/game developers who learned from their mistakes? Like they made the sequels way better

[@jpbart1390]

here's an obscure prediction. i once watched the best of laugh in & they had this news of the future & said that in 1989, the berlin wall comes down! i'm trying to find the video on youtube now!

[@liamhuges]

Any luck?

[@lawrencebraun7616]

You forgot the tv show "UFO" predicted the cordless phone and space junck

[@yaboifender1351]

you forgot about Alec Guiness predicting James Dean's car crash