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HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES

Added on: 14th Dec 2015

 

THE MENACES

Historical coincidences

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

Historical coincidences

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

Historical coincidences

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 and George Ellison

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

Historical coincidences

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

Historical coincidences

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

Historical coincidences

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

Historical coincidences

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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