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William Miller Promised Judgment Day. It Became the ‘Great Disappointment’

GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

William Miller predicted the Second Coming would happen sometime within the year following March 12, 1843. When it didn't, his religious sect, the Millerites, turned on him.

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