From the August 29, 2015, History "6 famous coincidences" by Sarah Pruitt.
1. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died hours apart on the same day: July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American independence.
James Monroe became the third U.S. president to die on July 4 in 1831. James Madison, Jefferson's close friend and Virginian came close to dying on Independence Day on June 28, 1836.
2. JUST A YEAR BEFORE JOHN WIKES BOOTH KILLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BOOTH'S BROTHER EDWIN SAVED THE LIFE OF LINCOLN'S ELDEST SON, ROBERT.
Edwin Booth was a solid supporter of the Union, unlike his brother. In late 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln fell on some railroad tracks and would have been mangles or killed had someone not saved him. Robert recognized his savior as being the famous actor Edwin Booth.
Edwin Booth only learned later who the man was he saved. His friend Adam Badeau, a colonel in the Union Army, wrote Edwin congratulating him for saving the president's son. At the time, Robert Lincoln was serving with Badeau on Gen. Grant's staff.
--Cooter
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