Moish26, I agree.
RebE, I agree with you about the general idea that we shouldn’t focus on goyishe dates. Additionally, gimatriyos without true Torah sources have very little validity – with respect to Sam Klein).
At the same time, there is the idea (taught especially by the Baal Shem Tov) that we must learn a lesson from every single thing that happens in the world, because if Hashem allowed us to see it, it must be for a certain reason.
Therefore, we shouldn’t be so quick to disregard anything as a meaningless coincidence.
Obviously, this does not necessarily mean that we must make Torahs and Gematriyos from everything we see, but nothing is by chance.
Everyone has their way to connect to emuna, if someone gets chizzuk from this method, zol zein.