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Some historical events feel important because of what happened. Others feel stranger because of when they happened. These articles explore assassinations, royal milestones, moon missions, elections, disasters, market crashes, breakthroughs, and other major events whose dates seem to echo each other in uncanny ways.
From mirrored dates and repeating numbers to symbolic totals and neatly recurring timelines, this pathway looks at the moments when history appears to follow patterns that feel too precise to ignore.
Three founding-era presidents died on the symbolic birthday of the United States. Two died on the same day, exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted. A third followed five years later.
At first glance, it sounds like a historical curiosity. But the more closely the pattern is viewed, the more structured it feels.
It is not just that three presidents died on the same calendar date. It is that the date was already the ceremonial birthday of the country. It is that two of them died on the same day. It is the same day as the 50th anniversary of the founding document.
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo. The event is widely treated as the spark that set the First World War in motion.
Exactly five years later, on June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France. UK Parliament describes the assassination as arguably marking the start of the war, while the Treaty of Versailles symbolises its end.
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