A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was put in peril on Nov. 14, 1943, all because of a torpedo inadvertently launched from a U.S. Navy destroyer during World War II.
At work, there's this accidentally-sent-an-email-without-the-attachment kind of mistake, and then there's this I-almost-blew-up-the-President-of-the-United-States mistake.