Also TWA800 was 18 years to the day (not suggesting it was shot down, only coincidence). As well as the TAM crash in Brazil in 2006.
Really bad year for the T7, after a virtually unblemished history it took 13 months to get 3 hull losses and a body count of over 500.
Further, in 1975, at the height of the Cold War, Apollo and Soyuz connected in orbit. Now in 2014, we are inching closer to the brink of shooting at each other.