Historical clue formulations

• Most urgent — 2010-01-10
• Most urgent — 2008-11-23
• Most calamitous — 2007-07-24
• Most desperate — 2001-04-30
• Like the worst predictions — 2000-07-15
• Terrible to the max — 2000-06-03
• Most dreadful — 1998-01-29
• Worst — 1994-08-28