Prediction that were wrong

"give Castro a year."Former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, 1959. Fidel Castro has stayed in power for 47 years. /t will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become

prime minister." Margaret Thatcher, 1974. She was the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

"it is too early fora Polish Pope" Karol Wojtyla, 1978, shortly before being elected as Pope John Paul II.

"No, thank you."The first of several agents who rejected J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book

This might be funny but there is a lesson.