Coincidence! o_O

Coincidences happen, whether something related to your conversation happens on cue or something plain strange happens. Here's some strange and mysterious coincidences.
Mark Twain was born on an appearance of Halley's Comet. He predicted that he'll die the next time it came. He was right.

In 1979, there was a writing competition that had to be based on real things. This guy named Walter Kellner won, with a story of him flying a Cessna 421 between Sardina and Sicily. He had engine problems, landed in the sea, and got rescued. Another dude called Walter Kellner called shenanigans, claiming plagiarism. He said he was flying a Cessna 421 over the same sea, with engine problems, but he landed in Sardina just in time. Both stories were true.

This is a well known one. Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility in 1898 about a ship called the Titan crashing into an iceberg en route to New York and many dying because there weren't enough lifeboats. This actually happened except with a slightly differant name, the Titanic.
PLUS: She also wrote a novel called Beyond the Spectrum, which features sun bombs, bombs enough to blind anyone who looks at it and contains massive power. It starts with a surprise Japanese attack on Hawaii. The war is supposed to start in December of 2006. Fail

On July 28 1900, the Italian king Umberto I was having dinner at a restaurant. The restaurant owner was called Umberto, he looked extremely similar like Umberto, his wife had the same name as the queen, and the restaurant opened the same day as the kings inauguration. Umberto and Umberto were both shot dead the next day.

Claude Volbonne killed Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France in 1872. After 21 years, the Baron's dad was killed by someone called Claude Volbonne.

A couple people in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire were watching a scene in the film Around the World in 80 days, where a hot air balloon was taking off. Then the TV crashed as a hot air balloon collided with the power lines nearby.

A British cop called Major Summerfield, fought in Flanders Fields in 1918 where lightning hit him and he was paralyzed from waist down. He retired and moved to Vancouver. In 1924, he was hit by lightning again, paralyzing his right side. 2 years later he recovered and was walking in a park where he was struck by lightning AGAIN, permanently paralyzing him. He died 2 years later. Four years after his burial, lightning struck his tombstone. Shocking, eh?

A really long one is coming up.