10 Interesting Fact About Intriguing historical coincidences

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• On July 4, 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two President of the United States who signed the declaration of independence, died on the same day with a time difference of only a few hours.
• On the same day with April 14, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, two famous US presidents, were shot dead in different years.
• In 536 AD is considered one of the worst years in human history because of the volcanic eruption that makes smoke cover the sun for several months. This year also coincides with the plague and hunger that hit Europe and Asia.
• In 1912, the Titanic ship sank on the night of April 14, while on the same night in 1912, the Carpathia ship managed to save the survivors.
• On September 11, 2001, the aircraft hijacked crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon buildings, while on September 11, 1973, there was a military coup in Chile that overthrowed President Allende.
• In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story about the ship that found the body of a sailor at sea, which turned out to have died before the ship departed. A few years later, a similar incident occurred on the Mary Celeste ship.
• In 1967, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison met in London and exchanged guitars. Not long after, Hendrix recorded the song All Along The Watchtower written by Bob Dylan, and Harrison recorded the song While My Guitly Weeps which was also inspired by Dylan.
• In 1929, Orson Welles, a well -known director and actor, was born on the same day as the science writer Philip K. Dick.
• In 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped in the city of Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9.
• In 1831, Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell traveled to South America together. During this trip, Darwin was inspired to write books on the origin of species that changed human perspective on evolution.