"Parallel Histories: Overlapping Events That Boggle the Mind"
"Betty White, who famously died in 2021, was older than sliced bread. She was born in 1922. Sliced bread was invented in 1928."
"The last execution by guillotine in France and the release of the first Star Wars movie took place at the same year (1977)."
"Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year."
"There was a 22-year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
The fax machine was invented in 1843 The samurai were abolished in 1867 Abraham Lincoln died in 1865"
"The iconic cover photo of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album was taken on the same day as the Manson murders."
"On a similar note:
The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland opened the same day as the Manson murders."
"Anne Frank, MLK Jr, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year"
"William Shakespeare and Pocahontas both died within one year and one hundred miles, of each other"
"The Challenger shuttle disaster was in January 1986, and Chernobyl was in April 1986"
"John Wayne Gacy was executed the same night Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized, under an eclipse."
"There was a 6 year period in which Galileo could have taught at Harvard"
"Fenway Park opened the same week that the Titanic sank."
"Rosa Parks could’ve seen Shrek in theaters"
"Harriet Tubman lived when the 2nd and 39th presidents were alive. John Adams died in 1826 (Tubman was born in 1822) and Ronald Reagan was born in 1910 (Tubman died in 1913)"
"Pablo Picasso was still painting (1973) months after the last man had walked on the moon (1972)"
"Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey both came out within a week or so of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination"
"Nintendo was founded the same year that Starry Night was painted (and when Jack the Ripper was active)."
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