Ten Fascinating Meetings in History

From Listverse January 21, 2009 by Blogball.

10. CHARLES ROLLS and FREDERICK ROYCE-- 1904-- Rolls was later killed when his Wright (as in Wright Brothers) biplane crashed.

9. DEXTER KING and JAMES EARL RAY-- 1997-- The son of Martin Luther King and his father's convicted killer.

8. EDGAR ALLAN POE and CHARLES DICKENS-- 1842 in Philadelphia.

7. THOMAS STAFFORD and ALEXEI LEONOV-- July 15, 1975 in Outer Space aboard the SU Soyuz.

6. POPE JOHN PAUL II and MEHMET ALI AGCA-- 1983. Aca shot the Pope.

5. RICHARD NIXON and ELVIS PRESLEY-- 1970

4. HENRY STANLEY and DAVID LIVINGSTON-- Nov. 10, 1871. "Dr. Livingston, I presume."

3. DOUGLAS MaCARTHUR and EMPEROR HIROHITO-- September 27, 1945

2. ULYSSES GRANT and ROBERT E. LEE-- April 9, 1865 at the surrender.

1. NEILS BOHR and WERNER HEISENBERG-- 1922. Nuclear fission.

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The Pres. and the King. --DaCoot