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14 Eyebrow-Arching Historic Coincidences

By:: Shea

August 05, 2020

14 Eyebrow-Arching Historic Coincidences

There's some historic coincidences that can be explained, like Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applying for patents on a telephone only hours apart from each ... probably because the other one was tipped off. But to hear some truly unexplainable coincidences, read on below.

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The car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assasinated had a license plate that was the same as the date WWI ended. A III 118 44 Armistice 11 Novem — Source: Smithsonian

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Mark Twain predicted the date of his own death a year before it happened. Speaking about his relationshp to Halley's Comet, which was visible the year — Read More: 6 Famous People Who Eerily Predicted Their Own Deaths

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Twin tragedy Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was knocked down by a taxi and killed in Hamilton, Bermuda and it was the Sime taxi with the same driver, carrving — Read more: The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Coincidences of All-Time

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima, then returned home before the second bomb — Source: NBC

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The novella The Wreck of the Titan predicted the sinking of the Titanic... 14 years before it happened. The Wreck of the Titan o Futility Morgan Rober — Read More: 6 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened

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3 of the first 5 Presidents died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died a few hours apart in 1826, and Monroe died in 1831. — Read More: 6 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened

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John Wilkes Booth is in one of the 50 photos John Wilkes Booth ever taken of Abraham Abraham Lincoln Lincoln. This one was taken during his Second Ina — Read more: 8 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe

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Haiti and Liechtenstein had the same flag design by coincidence. It wasn't discovered until they both competed in the 1936 Olympics. CRACKED.COM — Source: Britannica

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In March 195l, both the American and British Dennis the Menace comics premiered, coincidentally. There is no way either creator could have known what — Source: BBC

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Kennedy predicted his own assassination the morning of his death. He told his wife, But Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a ri — Source: Snopes

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The word for dog in the extinct language of Mbabaram is' dog. It's just a coincidence. CRACKEDCOMT — Source: Language Hat

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Violet Jessop was on the Titanic when it sank, the Olympic when it collided with a British warship, and the Britannic when it sank. She continued to w — Source: Titanic Survivor

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The graves of the first and last British soldier to die in World War I face each other, unintentionally. They are 15 feet apart from one another. CRAC — Source: The Guardian

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Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was nearby during three presidential assassinations. After the third, he stopped attending presidential fu — Source: Mental Floss

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Continue down the rabbit hole of weird coincidences... Aaron Burr once saved Alexander Hamilton from a duel. The FBI agent who tried to warn us about — 5 Historical Plot Twists That Seem Too Crazy To Be Real

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