In a rather absurd historical coincidence, Prokofiev and Stalin died on the same day in 1953 (March 5).

Many planners, however, see the more pressing issue as one that looks at regions, rather than single municipalities, whose borders are often the result of historical coincidence.

By historical coincidence, the Second World War ended in Norway nine days before that year's Constitution Day, on May 8, 1945, when the occupying German forces surrendered.

Although this last phase of Psalmanazar's life earned him far less fame than his earlier career as a fraud, it nonetheless resulted in some remarkable historical coincidences.

This is probably due to historical coincidence.

By the oddest of historical coincidences, Christopher Columbus was present and witnessed the surrender.

Christopher Hitchens and the Iraq War ended on the same day, December 15, 2011-a historical coincidence that only he might have known what to do with.

Each time there was an historical coincidence to the timing.

This superstition had an excuse in strange historical coincidences; and the number seven was indeed to Rienzi what the 3rd of September was to Cromwell.

Such historical coincidences have littered, and pejrhaps befouled, my family's existence in the world.