10 Jul 13 of the Weirdest Coincidences to Ever Occur in History
I remember travelling for several hours from university back to my hometown once, and droped in to my local for a beer. The bartender serving me was a classmate I had seen the previous night across the country, working in his hometown. We were both pretty perplexed by the surprising but ultimately mundane coincidence.
But the fact is that these things happen all the time, and in far weirder and dramatic ways than my run-of-the-mill coincidence. Sometimes events line up in a way that leads many to believe it is a higher power that connected the two. Regardless of where you land on the matter, you will be blown away by some of these uncanny coincidences, some of which are hard to believe but are all completely true.
1. The Tomb of Tamerlane
On June 20, 1941, Russian archaeologists excavated the tomb of Tamerlane. Tamerlane, also known as Amir Timur, was a conqueror, founder of the Timurid Empire and the first ruler of its dynasty. He envisioned the restoration of Ghengis Khan’s vast empire, seeing himself as an heir to his rule.
It is said that on his tomb was inscribed: “Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. A mere three days after the exhumation, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest military invasion of all time, on the Soviet Union. Timur was re-buried with full Islamic ritual in November the following year, just before the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
2. Killer taxi
In Hamilton, Bermuda in 1975, a man was killed when he was hit by a passing taxi. The taxi was transporting a passenger who was unfortunate enough to witness the incident. One year later, the same taxi driver was driving the same passenger when the car hit another man. As if this wasn’t freaky enough, it turned out this new victim was the brother of the original victim, riding the same moped his brother was.
3. The Hoover Dam’s first and last victims
During the construction of the Hoover Dam, 122 men were killed working on the monumental project. The first worker to die during the dam’s construction was on December 20, 1922. His name was J.G. Tierny, and he drowned in the Colorado River while scouting the best location for the project. The last person to die there fell to his death on December 20, 1935. His name was Patrick Tierny, the son of the first victim.
Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914. His death led to Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia, which set into motion the events of the First World War. The strange thing is, a major part of the war could be seen before it even began.
The license plate number of Ferdinand’s car, in which he was killed, was “A III118”. The official end of the First World War was Armistice Day on November 11 1918, AKA 11/11/18.
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