I figured out the coincidence: They were all Presidents! Got ya. 
I thought the Tecumseh curse had to do with chainsaws. No, that wasn’t it; the curse was having to listen to people argue about superstitions all the way up to the 21st century!
C’mon people. We are talking about a curse. If the President talked about it, he would get lambasted in the press for being a kook and talking about superstitions. It’s on the level of a President’s wife consulting a psychic. LOL!
I heard an interesting piece on NPR last week, that said that Alexander Graham Bell had an invention (a metal detector) that could be used to find bullets in bodies. He had been trying it out in Veteran’s homes on Civil War vets, with much success. He would pass it over the body, and it would hum when it detected metal. Voila! The Bullet wasfound, and could be removed. So he came to DC,with much fanfare and hullabaloo, and used it on Garfield. It hummed over his entire body. Big failure. Later it turned out that Garfield was on an early metal spring mattress, and the springs were setting off the detector. But no one realized it until after he was dead.
The twenty year curse was highly publicized right after Kennedy’s assassination, as were all the coincidences between his life and Lincoln’s.
I’ve read this a couple times–did you mean to say “antiseptic”?
I read that astrologers said that the reason for these deaths was becasue every 20 years (give or take) Jupiter and Saturn conjoined.
So are there conjunct this year also?
Ah, it was pretty neat early in the morning around the end of May. They were only about one degree apart. They’ve been moving apart but will move slightly back together. They’re a nice impressive sight with the bright stars of the “winter constellations” in the early morning now. They will be fairly close together, high in the early evening sky this winter.
If the curse does come around again, we should be prepared. Who would you prefer, Pres. Cheney or Pres. Lieberman? Frankly, both possibilites make me shudder. Maybe we’ll get lucky, and Clinton will drop dead of a massive Big Mac-induced coronary, or Air Force One will crash in the Atlantic while on yet another Mideast peace mission (heh, heh).
While we are talking about coincidences that can be made to look important:
Number of presidents who first reached the office by election (this excludes successions-by-death and Gerald Ford): 32
Of those, the number with birthdays between 4/29 and 12/27 (almost 8 months): 17 (53%)
Of those 17, the number successfully reelected: 2 (12%)
Of the 32, the number with birthdays between 12/28 and 4/28 (4 months): 15 (47%)
Of those 15, the number successfully reelected: 13 (87%)
What does this mean? Well, the Christian Power Months (Christmas through Easter) produce particularly strong leaders. These four months (1/3 of the total) have produced almost half(!) of the people we’ve elected president. Further, those elected from those four months prove to be such strong leaders they were almost all reelected (the weak proved to be James Buchanan and William Harrison, Grover Cleveland was weak but redeemed himself).
Conversely, those born during the Christian Hibernation Months have proven to be weak. Even though they are given 2/3 of the year they have only produced half of the presidents, none with much success.
This proves that the power of God is greater than the power of Satan. Hallelujah Lord!!
Oh yeah, who were the two Satan spawn that managed to get reelected? Dwight Eisenhower and (surprise!) Bill Clinton.
[sub]PS, of course I don’t believe any of that[/sub]
there was a novel written in 1980 called ‘the zero factor’ by william johnson. it was about exactly this phenomenon.