Sixty years ago today, the February 9, 1962, issue of Life Magazine reported that the world had not come to an end six days earlier, on February 3.  As discussed in the magazine and in this article, millions of people were apparently disappointed on February 4 when the Earth was still around.

The biggest frenzy apparently took place in India, where millions reportedly gathered in Bombay in anticipation of the disaster.  An alignment of planets was said to be the cause of the non-event.