Faith Club

15.9.13 14:55
* First commercial fax service was in the same year the American Civil War ended (1865).

* During the American Civil War, the Germanic states were in the process of being unified into one country.

* Karl Marx was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln and wrote him letters.

* Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day (February 12, 1809).

* Orville Wright was still alive when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. The time between the first airplane and the atomic bomb was less than fifty years.

* Charles Lindbergh had dinner with the Apollo 11 crew the night before they launched.

* 1889 is when Nietzsche went mad and Heidegger, Wittgenstein and
Hitler were born. Charlie Chaplin was born on the same week as Hitler (April 16, April 20).

* Gandhi and Hitler lived at the same time. Gandhi even wrote Hitler a letter once asking him to chill out with the whole war thing.

* Hitler was nominated for the Nobel peace prize in 1939, just months before the start of WWII.

* Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, Franz Joseph, and Marshall Tito all lived in the same city, Vienna (1913).

* Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe were born 40 days apart, in 1926.

* Brooklyn Bridge was built before Tower Bridge in London.

* JFK, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day. As Aldous Huxley was dying he requested 100 µg of LSD, which his wife gave him. The first episode of Doctor Who was delayed because of the Kennedy assassination (Doctor Who first premiered November 23, 1963).

* 10 years after the death of Confucius, Socrates was born (469 BC). Confucius died just 4 years after Buddha died (483 BC, 479 BC).

* Slavery was made illegal in China the same year that the first commercial flight took place, 1910. Slavery was made illegal in Saudi Arabia in 1967. In Mauritania in 2007. (Over 5 years after the launch of the iPod.)

* Charlie Chaplin died the same year as Apple Computer Inc. was incorporated.

(reddit)