It may be coincidence. Or it may be that the entire Universe is interconnected in a way we don't yet understand....and works rather like a hologram. This could produce a variety of similar events in many different places...or congruence of numbers in regards to events...etc...not that anyone or anything was consciously planning it that way, but simply because it works that way automatically through a form of what could be termed resonance.

If you sound a note in a room full of instruments, they will all vibrate to it sympathetically and will produce the tone themselves, plus some additional overtones. The Universe may act in a similar way.

Every tiniest part of a hologram contains the image of the entire hologram. If you affect one part you affect all parts. That's another way of looking at it.

I've seen two many examples of "coincidences" by this time to be entirely sceptical that there's not a real pattern of some kind involved in such things happening. I don't think it's God doing it. I don't think it's deliberate on anyone's part. But I think it does happen. I think it's kind of like echoes and waveforms passing through this entire reality, and evidencing themselves in similar ways in a number of different places...or time periods.