Found this in a post on another group. Can anyone verify them?

1. In the 1930s in New York, a commuter train dove off an
open drawbridge into Newark Bay killing 30 passengers. The
newspaper published photographs of the incident and the
number 932 could be seen clearly on the side of one of the
coaches. A large number of people selected that number for
the Manhattan numbers game and the number came up! Thousands
of people won.

2. On the 26th November, 1911, three men were hanged at
Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder
of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. The killers names were Robert
Green, Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill.

3. In 1899 a man was killed by a bolt of lightning as he
stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. Thirty years later,
his son was killed in the very same spot by another bolt of
lightning. On October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the second
victim's son (and grandson of the first victim) was also
killed in the same spot by yet another bolt of lightning.

4. In 1979, Das Besteran, a German Magazine, held a writing
competition. Readers had to send in unusual stories based on
real life occurrences. Walter Kellner from Munich won with
his story about flying a Cessna 41 between Sardinia and
Sicily. In his story he had engine trouble, landed in the
water, and was later rescued. An Austrian man, also named
Waltner Kellner, wrote to the paper and told them that the
winner of the prize had plagiarized the story because
virtually the same thing had happened to him. The magazine
checked out both stories and found that they were both true,
despite being nearly identical.
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