Divine coincidences

[WTL]

My post in the Jesus as a bee gee thread got me to think a bit about what I guess I can only call a divine coincidence.

Shorthand definition for such would be a coincidence so improbable, and weird, that it almost implies a practical joker behind the scenes making sure it is so.

A poor example of such would be Timmy Tebow passing for 316 yards vs the steelers last week. Parts of his season seemed to be touched, although it could just have been chance or attributed to a good defense...but it was still kinda neat.

But I have two better examples. From Wiki;
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Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) was a wholesale grocer from Virginia. It is said that the American Civil War started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor.
The initial engagement on July 18, 1861 of what would become the First Battle of Bull Run took place on McLean's farm, the Yorkshire Plantation, in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia. Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, which was being used as a headquarters for ConfederateBrigadier GeneralP. G. T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace. Beauregard wrote after the battle, "A comical effect of this artillery fight was the destruction of the dinner of myself and staff by a Federal shell that fell into the fire-place of my headquarters at the McLean House."[1]
McLean was a retired major in the Virginia militia, but at 47, he was too old to return to active duty at the outbreak of the Civil War. He made his living during the war as a sugar broker supplying the Confederate States Army. He decided to move because his commercial activities were centered mostly in southern Virginia and the Union army presence in his area of northern Virginia made his work difficult. He undoubtedly was also motivated by a desire to protect his family from a repetition of their combat experience. In the spring of 1863, he and his family moved about 120 miles (200 km) south to Appomattox County, Virginia, near a dusty, crossroads community called Appomattox Court House.[2]
On April 9, 1865, the war revisited Wilmer McLean. Confederate General Robert E. Lee was about to surrender to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. He sent a messenger to Appomattox Courthouse to find a place to meet. On April 8, 1865, the messenger knocked on McLean's door and requested the use of his home. Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of McLean's house, effectively ending the Civil War.[2] Later, McLean is supposed to have said "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor".[3]

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The other great, perhaps divine, coincidence that I thought I would point out is the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Both occured on the 50th anniversery of the signing of the Declartion of Indepenence, July 4, 1826. They had been very close friends, but had a falling out over politics, only to reestablish freindship through letters in their later years. John Adams last words are reported to have been, "Thomas Jefferson Survives." Such may or may not have been true - Jefferson the Man had died a couple hours earlier at Monticello. But his ideas could be said to survive even to this day. Some have also said that Jefferson mentioned Adams in his last words, but this has never been and probably never will be vefified. Even so, it is spooky.
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So, are there any other happenings that qualify as such an improbible coincidence that people can offer? I made this post not as an offer of proof of any divine being per se, but just because I find such coincidences completely fascinating.