Louis XVI and the fateful 21st number

French King Louis XVI was advised to meet every 21th of the month with special attention. The palace astrologer's fateful prediction so frightened the king that he had refused to plan any case on that date. But life did not comply with his inaction, and the French Revolution forced him to abandon that habit. On June 21, 1791, the King and Queen were arrested while trying to flee the country. On September 21, France was declared a republic. And on January 21, 1793, the king was executed on the guillotine.

The presidential family Lincoln and the Booth artistic family

In March 1865, President Abraham Lincoln's son Robert went on a journey to New Jersey. 21-year-old Lincoln Jr., waited the train on a mobile platform at the station when the crowd pushed him and he fell into the hole between the platform and the wagon. His life was saved by the famous American actor Edwin Booth, who at the last moment pulled him back to the platform. While Mr. Bout became the savior of the American president's son, a month later (April 1865), his brother, actor John Wilks Booth, shot Abraham Lincoln in his lodge during a theatrical performance.

Mark Twain and Halley's Comet

Writer Mark Twain was born in 1835, just two weeks after the Halley's comet greatest approach to Earth. "I came with Halley's comet, and in 1910 it comes again, so I expect to go with her," says the writer a year before his death. His prophecy is coming true. Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, the day after the comet crossed the earth's orbit again.

Titanic and Titan

14 years before the Titanic encountered the bottomless ocean floor, the unpopular English journalist and fanatic Morgan Robertson, published his novel Vampire of Titan. In it, he described the tragic story of the unsurpassed super-lined liner Titan, who fatally collided with the iceberg, carrying most of his wealthy passengers at the bottom of the ocean.There were few rescue boats at that time, no one was excited about this romantic drama, but 14 years later, the situation has gone a long way since the true Titanic tragedy, which pulled the Robertson novel from the dusty shelves, and decorated it with the first column in the authoritative Times newspaper, the many startling coincidences between Titan and Titanic "begins with a full description of the ships route their passengers, speed of movement and even months, which plays out this spectacular clash - in April.

Lee Harvey Oswald and John Kennedy

A month before the murder of the US president, Lee Harvey Oswald received a job at the Texas School Registry. Later, according to official information, this is where the fatal shot of John Kennedy was made - an assassination for which Oswald is the prosecutor. What would happen if Lee Harvey had not received this work and would it happen the most infamous political assassinations in world history? Coincidence or strategic prepared mission - questions that still no one has given definitive answers, because Oswald was shot two days after the attack.

Stalin and Timur Tamerlan - Steel against Iron

In 1941, Stalin ordered a group of archaeologists to open the tomb of the terrible Turk-Mongol conqueror Timur Tamerlan / Timbur - translated "iron", located in the museum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the guardian of the memorial warned those who dared to break the peace of the conqueror of the inscription, carved on the tomb in 1405. According to him, who broke the Tamerlan covenant and opened his tomb, put the terrible demons of a devastating war upon his side.From 19 June 1941 the huge jade plate covering the Tamerlan sarcophagus was lifted On June 22, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, triggering the Great Patriotic War that killed more than 25 million people, and Stalin ordered rumors to be rumored to link the curse to the outbreak of war, and on December 20, 1942, the bones of Tamerlane were returned to his sarcophagus only a few days later, the Soviet army defeated the troops of General Friedrich Paulus at Stalingrad.