9 Historical Coincidences Too Freaky To Ignore. If ONE Thing Had Been Different...Wow

by N/A, 10 years ago | 1 min read

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When studying history, it's easy to focus only on the major events. But when you delve more into the details, some truly bizarre truths come to the surface. We've collected a few of these to share with you.

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1. Lee Harvey Oswald and the Texas Book Store

Lee Harvey Oswald was able to plan his assassination of J.F.K. through his job at the book store overlooking the Kennedy's car. If he hadn't gotten that job...what might have happened?

2 The Lincolns and the Booths.

Before Honest Abe was assassinated, his son Robert was saved by one Edwin Booth, the brother of the actor who would later assissinate Robert's father.

3. The world's most critical wrong turn.

Many people learned in their high school history classes that World War I was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. What many people don't know is the car they were in took a wrong turn...and the shooting may not have happened otherwise.

4. The cursed car of James Dean

The car that killed James Dean, after his death, broke the legs of one man, the hips of another, killed one one more person and the automobile shop it was worked on burned to the ground.

5. Mark Twain and Halley's Comet

Mark Twain was born the first day of a year where Halley's Comet appeared. Years later he would die, once again on the first day of a Halley Comet year. Stranger still is the fact that he actually predicted that this would happen.

6. The foreshadowing of the Titanic

There was a book called "Futility," published years before the Titanic came about. In this book, there is a huge, "unsinkable" ship that hits an iceberg and, lo and behold, ends up sinking. The name of the ship? The Titan.

7. The prediction of King Louis XVI's death

An astrologer told King Louis when he was born to always keep his guard up on the 21st of every month. Years later he went to the guillotine on the 21st of January.

8. One lucky son of a gun

Richard Lawrence tried EXTREMELY hard to assassinate president Andrew Jackson. He actually tried to kill him with two different pistols but both malfunctioned. When the police checked them later, they seemed to be working perfectly...

9. From one brutal warlord to another.

On an excavation in modern-day Uzbekistan, Stalin ordered archeologists to open up the tomb of Tamerlane, and old Asian warlord who caused the death of millions. Inside there was a warning that whoever opened the tomb would be even MORE brutal than Tamerlane. Within a year, things turned around in World War II...