Ted Kennedy also died on this day

[malaise]

nine years ago.
Just heard that on M$NBComcast

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Wow. Same illness, same day.

[malaise]

6. Amazing indeed

Same cancer

[dhol82]

2. Wow!

[babylonsister]

3. WOW! nt

[Raine]

4. wow

strange coincidence.

[lunasun]

5. Thanks malaise . This is the first I am reading of his passing now. Brain too with Kennedy

[mcar]

7. I just read that too

Glioblastoma is the nastiest of cancers.

[malaise]

8. I checked when I heard Kelly O'Donnell mention it

The most profound truth is that we'll all die- an amazing fact of life.

[mcar]

9. We are all on the same journey

Some have it easier, some much harder. I hope we can, someday, make it more equitable.

[malaise]

10. That's why I wonder why we spend so much time

fussing and fighting.

[a kennedy]

11. OMGOSH......

exactly

[marble falls]

12. Another uniquely American person. It is a fact and a shame that so much of what he did and ...

tried to accomplish for the nation will be unfairly shaded.

[malaise]

14. For me one of Teddy's greatest achievements

Was Title IX which gave girls equal.opportunities in sports. There are many others but that one was significant and its success is visible.

[marble falls]

17. A very good one! I'm tired of football being the tail of collegiate sports. My favorite aspiration

he had was working with Nixon to bring about single payer health care. Both the Democrats and Republicans dumped on it, though the support for it was also bi partisan.

[malaise]

18. He also was one of Obama's biggest supporters

Miss him

[marble falls]

23. Miss both of them!

[2naSalit]

13. This thought has been running through

my mind lately, except the same day part. Hmmm.

[kimbutgar]

15. Aretha Franklin died the same day as Elvis Presley also.

[malaise]

16. Yep

Saw that

[marble falls]

21. As a '60s person, that actually got "whoaaaa ..." out of me. A good example of how a random fact ...

taken by itself has a different connotation than when placed in the whole scheme. How many million other people died that day? Is there a day left some significant music figure or another hasn't died on?

My sister and I have the same birthday but she's eight years younger, in Aug. Some might say this is "whoaaaa ..." and some might say its only numbers.

I say I know what my dad got for Christmas at least twice.

[kimbutgar]

24. My first boyfriend's birthday was 4th of July, his Dad and Grandfather on his mother's side was

Born the same day. Sadly my old boyfriend and his Dad died sad lives. Talking to his sister she said her family was cursed.

[marble falls]

26. My first wife's birthday is July 4. And my immediate family are all Virgos and 3 of 6 kids are ...

left-handed.

Where's Scully and Mulder when we need them?????

[kimbutgar]

30. Sometimes there is a unique symbiosis in the universe.

[marble falls]

33. Absolutely no doubt. Synchonocity is a real phenomena. The whole universe is one. Nothing happens...

in a vacuum.

[LS_Editor]

19. Interesting.

Not as interesting as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson dying hours apart, though.

[kimbutgar]

25. I read about his years ago and was marvelled by the coincidence.

[AdamGG]

27. Both on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1826

They were both fighting to stay alive for that anniversary and then let go.

[elleng]

28. And

'Back on July 4, 1831, James Monroe, the fifth President, died at the age of 73 at his son-in-law’s home in New York City. Monroe had been ill for some time and newspapers had reported on Monroe’s illness before his passing.

Local and national newspapers were also quick to report after Monroe’s death that they thought his July 4th passing was a “remarkable” coincidence, at the least, since Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826 – the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.'

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/three-presidents-die-on-july-4th-just-a-coincidence

[irisblue]

20. 🕯️

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Thanks! I'm watching now too.

They don't make them like this anymore - either of them.

[NickPeace]

29. Wow

I didn’t know that.

[mobeau69]

31. BHO remembers Teddy

[malaise]

32. Thanks

[marble falls]

34. Thanks for posting that.

[riversedge]

35. surreal. And of the same deadly tumor. whow.

[certainot]

36. and if wellstone hadn't died in a plane crash it would probably be the same

[mountain grammy]

37. I've thought a lot about Ted Kennedy today

But didn’t realize this..thanks Malaise..

[Historic NY]

38. The 'Lion', prepared the way for the 'Maverick'

that is all.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/what-john-mccain-learned-from-ted-kennedy-on-challenging-his-own-party/2017/07/20/f40c819e-6d47-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.d7cc7ffcb829|]