COINCIDENCES

Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 11

COINCIDENCES

HISTORICAL INSTANCES A writer in llio Edinburgh ‘Weekly Scotsman’ Inis compiled the following interesting facts;— William Shakespeare, the famous dramatist and poet, was bom at StratI o,rd-on-Avon on April I’d. 1561. and he died there on April 2A, 1616. Oliver Cromwell considered September A to be his lucky day. His victory over the Scots at Dunbar in 1650, his rout, of the Royalists at Worcester in 1651. the opening ol his second Parliament in 1651, and In'- death in 1053, strange to relate, all look place on September A. The la to President Woodrow Wil- on is said to have looked upon IA a.s Ids lucky number. There arc 1A letters m his name. Ho had been 1A ycai at Princctown before being elected president of the university there, and he held that office for 1A years. The sum of the digits in 1912, the year ol his first nomination for the Uidled States Presidency, is IA. And the Electoral College met on January IA. 191 J, for his formal installation to that high office, Robert Wakeford. son of a butcher at Headley, a Hampshire village, was born on March IA. Ho joined the army on June IA. 191(1. He was in Eranee IA months during the Great War. Ho was wounded on July IA. 1917. He occupied bed 1A in ward 1A ol hospital ]A, behind the firing line, when under medical treatment. And lie arrived m London on September IA, where he was JA days in hospital. The successful attack • on /eebruggo by the English licet in 1918 took place on April 2A. which was the pntronal day of fit. George of England. The armistice at the cad ol the Great War became operative ■ t the lltii hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1218.