Post by Ravi Samy

“What are the odds?” we ask when strange things occur. What, for instance, are the odds that the two principal architects of the Declaration of Independence would both die on the Fourth of July, exactly 50 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted the document? A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson The odds are so poor that probably no one would take that bet. Yet the thing happened. On Independence Day 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—former presidents who had been great friends, then bitter enemies, then friends again—shuffled off their mortal coils within hours of each other.