The most bizarre coincidence in history

Coincidence does not seem to have a common cause, but the explanations about them can be interesting.

Haunting coincidences in world history

1. Chelyabinsk explosion in the Russian sky

On February 15, 2013, an asteroid flew into the earth's atmosphere in the Ural region south of Russia and then exploded. This event was witnessed by thousands of people and it became the largest meteorite explosion known since the Tunguska event occurred in 1908. The explosion created a brighter light than the sun and shockwave. Feeled by people all over the region. The energy of the explosion is equivalent to 20-30 of the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima, Japan. About 1,500 people were injured and 7,000 houses were damaged. Meteorites make the ground heat up, the city smells of gunpowder after the explosion. About 16 hours after the explosion, another asteroid named 2012 DA14 flew across the earth at a distance of 27,700km. Scientists say the two asteroids have significantly different orbits, the fact that they approach Earth almost at the same time is very rare.

2. Wrestler Chris Benoit and Wikipedia

In June 2007, professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his entire family before committing suicide. Benoit is a famous member of World Wrestling Entertainment. He strangled his wife and 7-year-old son, suffocating, then hung up. Some people believe that he experienced " rage " due to heavy alcoholism or brain damage, but there was a strange coincidence 14 hours before police discovered Benoit's body and joined him. family, the English Wikipedia site mentioned the death of Nancy's wife: 'Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro during the ECW world championship match at Vengeance, Benoit could not come due to personal problems, arrest source from the death of Nancy's wife '.

Benoit did not leave a suicide note, the circumstances surrounding Benoit's death were still a mystery, making many people think.

3. Events July 11, 1991

On this day, UFOs appeared in the sky of Mexico. The event was witnessed by thousands of people and coincided with the UFO seen during the total solar eclipse. Mexico City residents said there was a large metal flying saucer in the sky. Many people recorded it and re-broadcast it on the mass media. The coincidence between eclipses and UFOs made many curious people come up with different theories. Some say that the flying saucer is predicted in the document called the Dresden Codex on the Mayan calendar. The July 11 calendar will happen the solar eclipse and add that it will bring about changes and ' raise awareness of the universe' of people.

4. Deadly song

People in the Philippines love to sing karaoke and songs are part of their culture. For most karaoke bars, people use it for serious entertainment. However, many cases of Filipinos were murdered while singing Frank Sinatra's ' My Way' in 1969. This song is a popular karaoke melody in the Philippines, about a person's mood. ready to wait for death to relive his life.

In some places, the term 'videoke rage ' has been used to describe deaths. Romy Baligula, 29, was shot dead by a security guard when he sang this song without stopping. The song is known to be disturbing and many people refuse to sing it to avoid possible problems.

5. The fire in Peshtigo and Chicago

On October 8, 1871, the central and western United States experienced a massive fire storm that burned an area of ​​6,100 square kilometers around Peshtigo, Wisconsin . This event is the most terrible fire in America's history of killing 1,500 to 2,500 people. After having enough energy, the fire burned everything in its path. The fire was so hot that sandy beaches turned into glass, destroying 12 separate villages in the area.

Also during this time, located 400km south of Peshtigo, the city of Chicago also experienced one of the largest fires in history. When looking through the devastation, some people wonder what causes such a big fire. The coincidence caught the attention of a group of researchers, who suggested that fires occurring from meteorites originating from the Biela comet , methane gas in comets is likely to be volatile. Fire causes a forest fire when it collides with the ground.

6. The death of Ahmad Shah Massoud and the September 11 event

Ahmad Shah Massoud was a military leader in Afghanistan who was assassinated on September 9, 2001, two days before 9/11. He was a central figure in the war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s and became a hero in Afghanistan after the war. Two men who impersonated journalists killed Massoud in a suicide bombing. An assassin dies in the explosion, the other is shot dead while trying to flee the scene. Before a September 11 event, Massoud made a speech to the European Parliament warning of a massive terrorist attack in the United States.

7. Song Eleanor Rigby

'Eleanor Rigby' is the Beatles song released in August 1966. McCartney attended an interview about how he composed the lyrics, saying that at first he gave the idea of ​​his own father but found it inappropriate, so he looked at the phone book. and found the name "McKenzie ." Finally the name "McKenzie's father " was used in the lyrics. McCartney gave the name "Eleanor" from actress Eleanor Bron and "Rigby" from the name of a store in Bristol. In the 80s, a tomb was discovered in St. Peter's Parish in Woolton, England with the name Eleanor Rigby on it. Even more casually, a few meters from Eleanor's grave is a tombstone with the name "McKenzie".

8. The female hostesses suffer the most

Violet Jessop is a ship attendant surviving the three biggest ship disaster in the 20th century, including the sinking of the Titanic . Jessop was Irish, she first worked at RMS Olympic, the world's largest civilian ship at the time. However, the accident occurred when the RMS Olympic ship collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke in 1911, causing the ship to be seriously damaged, she was lucky to escape this time.

In October 1912, Jessop served as a hostess on the Titanic, four days after departing the Titanic crashed into the iceberg, causing the ship to break in half, sinking deep into the ocean floor. Fortunately, the young girl received the order to the lifeboat and was rescued.

In November 1916, she was a hostess on the Britannic . The ship then suffered a deep-sea crash and the Aegean, far away from Greece's Kea island, killing 30 people. Because all the windows were opened for ventilation, Violet promptly jumped into the lifeboat and once again she was saved.

After many accidents, this woman is not afraid. After the war, she continued to become a hostess. In 1971, Violet Jessop died of heart failure.

9. Windshield is corroded

In 1954, thousands of people in Bellingham and Seattle, Washington, USA reported unusual holes and holes in their car windshields . At first, it was thought that the cause of the incident was caused by vandals, others argued that 3,000 windshields were affected by cosmic rays or nuclear fallout.

On March 1, 1954, America conducted nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll , a group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean, 7,700km from Seattle. The initial tests were called Castle Bravo, which were hydrogen bombs using extremely high fusion energy.

In the experiment, the US government misjudged the power of Castle Bravo. Hydrogen bombs are 1,000 times stronger than atomic bombs used during World War II, its nuclear fallout quickly covers the island and spreads out. This event is the most severe radioactive accident in US history.

After the Bravo Castle exploded, the next five nuclear tests were conducted in the area.Radioactive dust and kernels from Bikini Atoll may be the cause of the coincidence of damaging the car windshield in Seattle.

10. Lucky by Andrew Jackson

Unlike Lincoln and Kennedy, President Andrew Jackson is much more fortunate. An unemployed artist named Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate him but his gun was stunned.

One person quickly slammed the stick into the assassin's arm. Without stopping, he withdrew his second gun but the gun still couldn't explode. He finally let go of his hand.

11. Waves or particles

In 1906 JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that electrons are a particle. In 1937, his son, George Thompson, won the Nobel Prize for himself that it was a wave.

12. Invincible Mongols of Japan

In its flourishing period, Mongolia was a country full of aggression with powerful troops.

And although Mongolia has invaded Japan twice, they have all failed by sea storms in time in both times.

13. Armand Hammer

Armand Hammer is an American business manager, he became the chairman of the board of a household product manufacturing company that owns Arm & Hammer.

Many people think that the brand name comes from the boss Armand Hammer; However, the Arm & Hammer brand was used 31 years before Hammer was born.

14. The coincidence flag

This flag was nothing special until the 1936 Berlin Olympics, people suddenly recognized Haiti and Lichtenstein with the same idea, two identical flags. Later each country has its own adjustments to avoid confusion.