13 Coincidental Dates That Almost Make Us Believe in Numerology

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13 Coincidental Dates That Almost Make Us Believe in Numerology

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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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.

DW / History Extra 

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.

USA Today 

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.

Telegraph 

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.

BU / History 

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.

Sky News  

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.

NC Register / ABC 

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