A Small World: Some Odd Coincidences
by Circumstantial Evidence? …English politician and justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found murdered on October 17, 1678. His body had been left in a ditch on Greenberry Hill in London. Three men were arrested and tried for the crime. Their names were Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill.
A Small World: Some Odd Coincidences
Sons, Beware
Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, when his father was assassinated. He was also nearby on July 2, 1881, when President James Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station in Washington. And on September 6, 1901, he just happened to be a few feet away when President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
Prophetic Play
Early in 1938 playwright A. J. Talbot published a one act comedy, Chez Boguskovsky, in which a man named Boguskovsky steals a painting from the Louvre in Paris. On August 15, 1939, a painting was stolen from the Louvre. The name of the thief: Boguskovsky.
Lost and Found
One day in 1952 the oboist Léon Goossens lost his pocket diary in a field near his home. A year later he was walking across the same field and discovered the diary, by then battered by wind and rain. Goossens noticed that newspaper had been used to stiffen the covers. When he pulled it out, Goossens found himself reading an extract from a gossip column. The subject: his own marriage, 19 years earlier.
Class Conscious
In 1906 six babies were born on board the German ship Grosser Kurfurst, sailing from Bremen to New York: one in first class, twins in second class, and triplets in third class.
Heralding Disaster
Film writer and producer Irwin Allen has made a specialty of disaster movies, and their production has often coincided with real-life versions of the disasters they feature. In The Poseidon Adventure an ocean liner capsizes. The movie opened late in 1972, the same year the luxury ship Queen Elizabeth capsized.
In 1974, the year that The Towering Inferno premiered, three skyscrapers in Brazil caught fire. And in 1980 Allen’s film about a volcanic eruption, When Time Ran Out, coincided with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.
Too Sweet
In 1974, at the Pepperidge Farm plant in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, an employee was killed when he fell into a vat of chocolate. His name was Robert C.H. Hershey.
Family Affairs
On February 13, 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for the murder of his father. Precisely 100 years later, on February 13, 1846, another Frenchman, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed – for the murder of his father.
Circumstantial Evidence?
English politician and justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found murdered on October 17, 1678. His body had been left in a ditch on Greenberry Hill in London. Three men were arrested and tried for the crime. Their names were Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill.
Survivors
On December 5, 1664, a boat sank while crossing the Menai Strait in the Irish Sea. Just one of the 81 passengers survived, a man named Hugh Williams. On December 5, 1785, another boat sank in the same place. The only survivor: a man named Hugh Williams. On August 5, 1820, 24 passengers in a stricken vessel drowned. One man was saved. His name was Hugh Williams.
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Post Commentken bultman
On October 11, 2009 at 11:28 am
Mr, G., I knew I would enjoy this when I read the title. Thank you.
wonder
On October 11, 2009 at 2:05 pm
A great post, Intriguing! Thanks for the share.
Lostash
On October 11, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I love reading about coincidences…I think that we are often subjected to cosmic jokes!
Shirley Shuler
On October 11, 2009 at 9:25 pm
When I read the title, I knew this would be an enjoyable post, thank you so much for this!!
Joie Schmidt
On October 12, 2009 at 2:05 am
This is definitely a BEYOND intriguing piece – thank you for sharing!!!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Christine Ramsay
On October 12, 2009 at 2:52 am
Very strange coincidences. A really interesting article.
Christine
monica55
On October 12, 2009 at 3:43 am
A really informative, interesting and enjoyable write.
Monica.
Idazalee
On October 12, 2009 at 8:10 am
Great post! ..another wonderful story and very well-written piece..interesting read!..Thank you so much Mr Ghaz for sharing this wonderful stuff.
Jo Oliver
On October 12, 2009 at 3:39 pm
ODD!
very well done.
hollynoel001
On November 1, 2009 at 3:39 pm
very interesting pieces of history thank you for putting together such an intriguing article
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Steven Brown
On May 25, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I think you will find that the article on Edmund Berry Godfrey is not as full fo coincidences as you claim.
For instance his name can and was also spelt Edmundbury Godfrey.
Also, the hill was named Greenberry Hill”, because of the hangings of Green, Berry and Hill and was called this after the event (it is in fact now very famously known as Primrose Hill, in London)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berry_Godfrey
Fernando
On May 25, 2010 at 3:33 pm
how long did Hugh Williams lived? 170 years?
what a coincidence that the same person was rescued 3 times
(just kidding)
Peter Fulton Foss
On June 5, 2010 at 4:39 pm
The comparison of the “Poseidon Adventure” (in which an ocean liner overturns) to the luxury liner “Queen Elizabeth” capsizing is stretching the truth a bit.
In point of fact, the “Queen Elizabeth” was no longer in service and had been sold to a Chinese entrepreneur C.Y. Tung. Tung was converting the vessel to a floating university and had re-named it “Seawise University”.
The ship caught fire at Hong Kong in January 1972, rolled over on its side and lay partially submerged in the shallow water.
I happened to be there at the time.
ensemble5
On September 13, 2010 at 10:08 am
You dear friend of the most interesting articles I appreciate your research please ghaz….
davidr
On December 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I don’t get some of these coincidences…
1) There was a guy in a ditch at Greenberry Hil, and MAC 2011 was arrested?
2) Robert Lincoln was present on July 2, 1881 when President James ADVIL was shot?
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