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On 9 December 1980 a deranged assassin gunned down former Beatle John Lennon, Media outlets paid tribute to him, the Liverpool echo, principal newspaper in the singers 574,000 population home city added something more. Initially unnoticed in the papers Lennon dominated page of classified death notices was a small advertisement marking the death of a second john Lennon. This 56 year old man, had also died on 9 December - just seven minutes after the murder of his famous namesake. His name was real not adopted.
In 1994 the British scientific journal nature, published a letter from Andrew scott, pointing out strange links between the Apollo 11 landing (1969) and the three shoemaker-levy comet fragments which crashed on Jupiter (1994)
- Comet fragment #1 struck Jupiter on the same day as Apollo 11 was launched, 25 years earlier
- Comet fragment #2 hit Jupiter 25 years to the minute after Apollo 11's Astronauts landed on the moon
- Comet fragment #3 collided with Jupiter almost exactly 25 years after Apollo 11 lifted of from the moon
More then a century after Abraham Lincoln's death people were starting to notice coincidences the seemed to link him the the assassinated President J.F. Kennedy
- Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846: Kennedy in 1946
-Lincoln was elected President in 1860: Kennedy in 1960
-Both men were strongly concerned with civil rights
-The wives of Lincoln and Kennedy both lost children while living in the white house
-Both Presidents were shot in the head, from behind, on a Friday , with their wives at their side
- The car in which Kennedy died was a Ford Lincoln
-John Wilkes Booth, who killed Lincoln. was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald , who killed Kennedy, was born in 1939
-Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a Warehouse and was caught in a theater
-Shortly before Lincoln dies he was in Monroe, Maryland. Shortly before Kennedy died he was visiting Marliyn Monroe
-Both Presidents were warned of danger. Lincoln's secretary, who was named
Kennedy, Begged him not to go to the theater, Kennedy secretary, who was named lincoln, implored him yo stay away from Dallas.
and thats about it there a few more Lincoln, Kennedy facts but i felt they were not needed
thanks to Morrol's fact on the leaderboard because it made me think of this and i told you guys so if i get on the leaderboard *hint* thanks to him/her
this stuff is pretty good
[Edited on 08.22.2008 6:42 AM PDT]