<p>Hugo Chavez died on the 60th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin, to the very day-- ok, no political comments, y’all.</p>
<p>What other amazing coincidences do you know of?</p>
<p>My son is starting his new job on his 24th birthday!</p>
<p>When I got my new cell phone, the last four digits were the same as the last four digits of my work telephone number.</p>
<p>My D & her serious BF ( who we are just crazy about BTW), were born on the same day - I am pretty sure different hospitals though.</p>
<p>Both my Ds were born in the same hospital, which obviously was planned. However, they were also born only one day ( & 8 years) apart, and being that one was born ten weeks early & the other one I didn’t even know I was pregnant with until I was three months pregnant( I kept having periods & had zero morning sickness), seems like a coincidence to me.</p>
<p>Add that to seeing my second baby daughter in the * same part of the NICU* that her sister had been in, with the * same primary care nurse* and it was overwhelming, even though it was 8 yrs later.( she had aspirated meconium, so although she was term, she was in NICU as a precaution)</p>
<p>A fairly well-known one but still amazing:</p>
<p>Founding Fathers and political rivals John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day - July 4th, 1826, which was also the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A triple coincidence.</p>
<p>Now here’s a strange coincidence! You starting this thread one (or two?) days after NPR runs a story on coincidences… 
or maybe it’s not a coincidence, just the power of suggestion.</p>
<p>[Lincoln?Kennedy</a> coincidences urban legend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LincolnKennedy_coincidences_urban_legend]Lincoln?Kennedy”>Lincoln - WikipediaKennedy_coincidences_urban_legend)
Debunked.
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<p>My daughter, my niece and omy cousin’s twins all share the same January birthday.</p>
<p>I bumped into some guys I knew from my hometown 10,300 miles away. Very random!</p>
<p>I share a birthday with both my mum and my mum’s sister</p>
<p>My sister and I were both born at 9:05 PM at St. Joseph’s hospital. 4.5 years apart and on opposite ends of the country. When my dad got in to his accident they took him to my St. Joseph’s but because he lost his memory, he thought he was at my sister’s in California.</p>
<p>In 2007, The Economist reported a joke going around in Kenya that “American will have a Luo president before Kenya does”, referring to the widely suspected 2007 election cheating against the main opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who was from the Luo ethnic group that was historically disadvantaged in political and economic life compared to the Kikuyu ethnic group of the incumbent Mwai Kibaki.</p>
<p>Barack Obama’s Kenyan ancestors are Luo.</p>
<p>My grandmother died on Good Friday, 10 days before her birthday.</p>
<p>A year later my grandfather died on Good Friday, 10 days before his birthday.</p>
<p>When I was in grad school I had a benign abdominal cyst surgically removed. I joked that the first thing I gave birth to was a tumor. Nine years later I gave birth to my first child-- on that very same date.</p>
<p>Here is an odd one that has been true for nearly 40 years but that wasn’t “noticed” until last year: H has 3 brothers, and all 4 of them have their birthdays on the same day of the week in any given year (e.g. this year it’s Wednesday). They fall in such a way that leap years do not affect the coinciding weekday. The only sister falls on a different day.</p>
<p>Good thread and some amazing stories.</p>
<p>My mother died on my birthday. Two months later, my father in law died on my husband’s birthday.</p>
<p>We also have born on the same day of week: me, mom, grandmom and ggm. 3 great aunts with the same day of month. But the oddest is the time my brother and I, younger, had identical dreams, one night.</p>
<p>One day in late pregnancy with DS, I ran into an acquaintance who had given birth a few weeks before. Upon seeing her with the baby, I had an overwhelming feeling that I would give birth the next day. I did, though my due date was two weeks away. Fast forward to my pregnancy with DD: I ran into an acquaintance who had just given birth a few weeks before. Once again, I had the same overwhelming feeling, which I, of course, dismissed, figuring I was inventing things, plus, my D was due four weeks later. However, my D was born the next day, four weeks early.</p>
<p>My MIL and my SIL (wife of MIL’s son) share a birthday. My MIL believes in astrology and proudly (!) states that her son married my SIL because she was exactly like my MIL. Both my BIL and SIL deny that there is any similarities between SIL and MIL. In fact, my SIL wishes she did not have to share her birthday with my MIL.</p>