13 Coincidental Dates That Almost Make Us Believe in Numerology
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Welcome, dear reader, to a collection of the most peculiar dates in history! A collection of dates that have been deemed so strange and uncanny that they have been deemed worthy of being included in this list of 13 Dates With Creepy Historical Coincidences.
From the Reichskristallnacht pogrom to the deaths of two famous writers, from the two plane crashes on the same day to the death of Boney M's singer, from the US use of atomic bombs to the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, from the death of Abraham Lincoln to the deaths of two grunge stars, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the deaths of three renowned writers, from the Krakatoa eruption to Gary Sinise's Emmy Award, and from the mysterious arrival of Jason to the list of dates, this collection of events is sure to leave you feeling a little bit uneasy.
So, without further ado, let's dive into this eerie list of 13 Dates With Creepy Historical Coincidences.
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Nazis unleashed horror on Jews.
![CRACKED DAVID'B9 TWA cleur LECER MARiBE NOVEMBER 9: PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING IMPORTANT IN GERMANY This has been a major date for Germany. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Jewish Pogrom of 1938 occurred, Hitler's attempted coup in 1923 failed, the German Republic was declared in 1918, and Robert Blum was executed in 1848.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/3/902583.jpg)
Two famous writers, same era, never met, died within 10 days.
![CRACKED D.G. Repetti APRIL 23: SHAKESPEARE AND CERVANTES DIED Famous writers William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, though they never met, both passed away within 10 days of each other. Due to the different calendars used in England and Spain, it was on the same date, April 23, 1616.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/2/902582.jpg)
Tragic irony: two plane crashes, one day.
![CRACKED EYI FY FBI JULY 17: TWO PLANE CRASHES July 17th is a date with a strange coincidence - it's the same day that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and TWA Flight 800 both crashed, the former in 2014 and the latter in 1996.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/8/902578.jpg)
Boney M's singer, gone like Rasputin.
![CRACKED DECEMBER 30: BOBBY FARRELL'S AND RASPUTIN'S DEATHS On December 30, 2010, Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, died in St. Petersburg, Russia - the same place where Grigori Rasputin, who Boney M wrote a song about, had been killed in 1916 on the same date.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/7/902577.jpg)
A dark day.
![CRACKED MAY 10: ONE SERIAL KILLER'S BAPTISM AND ANOTHER'S DEATH On May 10th, 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized in prison while John Wayne Gacy was being put to death -- and, as a kicker, a solar eclipse was happening across North America.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/0/902580.jpg)
Coincidence?
![CRACKED MAY 1: HITLER'S AND BIN LADEN'S DEATHS Both Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden died on the same day, but 66 years apart - Hitler in 1945 and Bin Laden in 2011.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/4/902574.jpg)
God's sense of humor?
![CRACKED JULY 4: JEFFERSON'S AND ADAM'S DEATHS John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both passed away on July 4th, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence being signed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/1/902581.jpg)
Grunge tragedy: two stars lost.
![CRACKED APRIL 5: TWO GRUNGE ARTISTS' DEATHS Two grunge stars, Kurt Cobain from Nirvana and Layne Staley from Alice in Chains, both passed away, Cobain in 1994 and Staley in 2002. Cobain died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and Staley from a drug overdose.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/3/902573.jpg)
Irony of ironies.
![CRACKED NOVEMBER 11: WWI ARMISTICE The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was in when he was assassinated, which started World War I, had a license plate that said Alll 118 - a most like A 11/11/18. The armistice to end the war was signed on November 11, 1918.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/9/902579.jpg)
A sad day for literature, history, and the world.
![CRACKED NOVEMBER 22: DEATHS OF C.S. LEWIS, JFK, AND ALDOUS HUXLEY On November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died in Oxford, England, John F. Kennedy died in Dallas, Texas, and Aldous Huxley died in Los Angeles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/2/902572.jpg)
Unfortunate Timing?
![CRACKED WOW! 7-13 HEY! WAS LIKE YOUR TUMMY'S YOU WHEN WAS YOUR TWICE THE SIZE AGE, SO YOU'LL BE LIKE REMEMBER, ME WHEN YOU'RE DAD! MY AGE. ©2009,NORTH America Synd. MARCH 12: TWO COMICS WITH THE SAME NAME LAUNCHED On March 12, 1951, two unrelated comics called Dennis the Menace were released - one in the UK and one in the US - even though neither knew what the other was doing,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/5/902575.jpg)
Emmy for Sinise, RIP Wallace.
![CRACKED SEPTEMBER 15: ACTOR WINS AWARD FOR PLAYING A MAN WHO DIES THE SAME DAY On September 15th, 1996, Gary Sinise was given an Emmy Award for his acting in a movie about George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama. Wallace passed away on the same day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/6/902576.jpg)
Farewell, Flight 666.
![CRACKED FINNAIR OCTOBER 13: FLIGHT 666 TO HEL On the 13th hour of Friday the 13th of October, 2017, Finnair's Flight 666 from Copenhagen (CPH) to Helsinki (HEL) took off for the last time. Because of routine rescheduling, not because it was engulfed in hellfire or something.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/1/902571.jpg)