HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES
Added on: 14th Dec 2015
THE MENACES
The English Dennis the Menace and the American Dennis the Menace
were thought up by completely independent authors and
published on the same day – March 12, 1951.
BROTHERLY LOVE
Remember Robert Lincoln? Well, Edwin Booth, the brother of
John Wilkes Booth (the guy that killed Robert’s father), saved his life
when he prevented him from being run over by a train.
Now that’s drama you can’t make up.
FLAG CONFUSION
It wasn’t until the 1936 Berlin Olympics that people realized Haiti and
Lichtenstein had the same flags. Adjustments have since been made!
A GRAVE COINCIDENCE
John Parr was the first British soldier to die in WWI. George Ellison
was the last. Although it wasn’t intentional, their graves are in the
same cemetery, only metres apart, and facing one another.
ARMAND HAMMER
Armand Hammer sat on the board of a company called Church and Dwight.
This was the company that owned Arm & Hammer. The company name did
not originate with Armand though, as it was named over 30 years prior.
MARK CHAPMAN
The man that killed John Lennon was named Mark Chapman. When NBC
decided to do an autobiography on Lennon a few years down the road
they failed to realize that the actor playing John Lennon was also named
Mark Chapman. This caused a bit of a media frenzy and they had to recast
the actor, but the coincidence remains – the original actor looked like
John but had the name of his killer.
THE TWO BOMBS
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was living in Nagasaki, Japan when he was called
to Hiroshima for work. On his last day in Hiroshima the nuclear bomb
fell but Tsutomu survived. He then returned to Nagasaki only to be
bombed again. Incredibly, he survived again.
ASTRONOMICAL COINCIDENCE
The theory that predicted the existence of asteroids was at one point
discredited although asteroids were later discovered. Some scientists
have stated that this prediction was an amazing coincidence.
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