Planet Friday the 13th

Nemesis of Neglect. Drawing published in Punch magazine September 29, 1888. Image Public Domain.

• October 13, 1307. Knights Templar arrested & put to death for blasphemy.
• February 13, 1891. The last of the Whitechapel Murders, attributed to Jack the Ripper by the public.
• January 13, 1939. "Black Friday" fire in Australia, killing 36 people.
• September 13, 1940. German bombing of Buckingham Palace.
• March 13, 1964. Murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, NY.
• November 1970. Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 300,000 people.
• October 13, 1972. Disappearance of Chilean Air Force plane in the Andes.
• October 13, 1972. Russian Aeroflot 217 crash killed 174 people.
• September 13, 1985. Super Mario Bros. released in Japan.
• January 13, 1989. "Friday the 13th Computer Virus" in Great Britain.
• October 13, 1989. The United States stock market experienced a mini crash.
• January 13, 2012. Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy, killing 30 people.
• March 13, 2020. COVID-19 declared a national emergency in the United States.

Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901
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• July 13, 1821. Nathan Bedford Forrest, first Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard.
• April 13, 1866. Butch Cassidy, outlaw.
• April 13, 1906. Samuel Beckett, writer.
• August 13, 1926. Fidel Castro, Cuban leader.
• December 13, 1929. Christopher Plummer, actor.
• April 13, 1945. Tony Dow, actor (played Wally on Leave It To Beaver)
• April 13, 1951. Max Weinberg, drummer.
• July 13, 1957. Michael Spinks, boxer.
• December 13, 1957. Steve Buscemi, actor.
• January 13, 1961. Julia-Louis Dreyfus, actor (Elaine Bennis on Seinfeld).
• October 13, 1961. Doc Rivers, coach.
• May 13, 1966. Darius Rucker, singer.
• June 13, 1986. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, actor.

The advertisement for daredevil Sam Patch's fatal last jump, November 1829.
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• November 13, 1829. Sam Patch, American daredevil.
• November 13, 1868. Gioachino Rossini, opera composer.
• November 13, 1903. Camile Pissaro, artist.
• April 13, 1917. Diamond Jim Brady, businessman.
• June 13, 1930. Henry Seagrave, British pioneer in land and water speed records.
• July 13, 1951. Arnold Schoenberg, composer.
• May 13, 1977. Mickey Spillane, mobster.
• May 13, 1988. Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter.
• September 13, 1996. Tupac Shakur, rapper.
• October 13, 2000. Tony Roper, NASCAR race driver.
• June 13, 2008. Tim Russert, journalist.
• July 13, 2012. Richard Zanuck, movie producer.
• April 13, 2018. Milos Forman, movie director.

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• Cast-attrition thriller: film subgenre in which the characters are picked off one by one by a masked killer or malignant force.
• Caturday the 14th: the day after Friday the 13th, most magical Caturday of the year. 
• 13 Valentines: when Friday the 13th collides with Valentines Day on Saturday.
• Christmas Eve: the Black Friday for procrastinators.
• Fri: short for Friday, the greatest day known to man.
• Friday Eve: the night before Friday, celebrating the birth of a new weekend.
• Friday the 13th party: a party celebrating Friday the 13th like Halloween.
• Fridane: to be of or like the cheerful spirit of Friday afternoon.
• Jason mask: a hockey mask like the one worn by Jason Voorhees.
• Thingsgettingday: the day after Thanksgiving Day.
• Thriday: the Thursday before a Friday holiday weekend.
• Walk like a zombie day: celebrated every October 13th.
• WWJVD: what would Jason Voorhees do?
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• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
• Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
• Friday the 13th The Final Chapter (1984)
• Friday the 13th A New Beginning (1985)
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
• Jason X (2002)
• Freddy vs Jason (2003)
• Friday the 13th (2009)

Source: Friday the 13th Franchise

• Friday the 13th: The Computer Game (1986)
• Friday the 13th (NES) (1989)
• Friday the 13th (Mobile Game) (2007)
• Friday the 13th 3D (2007)
• Friday the 13th: Blood and Water (2013)
• Mortal Kombat X (2015), Jason a special guest as a part of the DLC pack.
• Terrordrome: Rise of the Boogeyman (2015)
• Friday the 13th: The Game (2017)
• Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle (2018)

Source: Horror Geek Life

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Prologue of the code of Hammurabi, Louvre Museum
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1. Ancient Code of Hammurabi omitted a 13th law from its list of legal rules.
2. Judas Iscariot was the thirteenth guest at the Last Supper. (Led to the Christian superstition that having 13 guests at a table is a bad omen.)
3. In Viking mythology, Loki was the 13th guest of a feast, honoring Baldur, even though Loki was responsible for Baldur's death.
4. 13 is the age when a Jewish boy has his bar mitzvah and becomes a full member of the Jewish faith.
5. A hangman's noose traditionally has thirteen coils.
6. The United States began with thirteen states.
7. The flag of the United States has thirteen stripes.
8. Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853).
9. In the United States, many buildings have no 13th floor. Hotels, hospitals and airports avoid using the number 13. 
10. A baker's dozen contains 13 items.
11. Aluminum has the atomic number 13.
12. The good news is that every Friday the 13th is followed by a Saturday.
13. Taylor Swift is a fan of the number 13.

• The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985-1986)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• The Thirteenth Warrior (1999)
• Th13en Ghosts (2001)
• Thirteen (2003)
• 13 Going On 30 (2004)
• 1408 (2007): The number 1+4+8 = 13.
• Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
• 13 Sins (2014)
• 13 Hours (2016)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019 TV movie)

Source: IMDB.com

Intihuatana stone at Machu Picchu, Peru. Declared world heritage site by buteo.
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• Hoover Dam (Nevada)
• Blarney Stone (Ireland)
• Intihuatana Stone (Machu Picchu, Peru)
• Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Trevi Fountain (Rome, Italy)
• Money Tree (Cornwall, England)
• Casa di Giulietta (Verona, Italy)
• Abraham Lincoln's tomb (Springfield, Illinois)
• Statue known as the Gentleman from Paris (Havana, Cuba)
• Statue known as the Goose Girl (Gottingen, Germany)
• Point Zero (Paris, France)
• Charles Bridge (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Magic Owl of Dijon (Dijon, France)

Source: Chicago Tribune

Winnie the Pooh Sticker Set by Анна Таранкова
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• Susan B. Anthony
• Osama bin Laden
• Theodore Bundy
• Buzz Lightyear
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Saddam Hussein
• Jack the Ripper
• Chicken Little
• Charles Manson
• Nelson Mandela
• Shirley Temple
• Winnie the Pooh

• BBC: Friday the 13th Superstitions & History
• Chicago Tribune: 23 of the Luckiest Places in the World
• The Conversation: The Science of Superstition
• Friday the 13th Franchise
• Friday the 13th Origins and Superstitions
• Good Housekeeping: 55 of the Strangest Superstitions From Around the World
• Google Arts & Culture: 13 Superstitions from Around the World
• History.com: What's so unlucky about the number 13
• IMDB: Ranking the Friday the 13th films from best to worst
• Medical News Today: How do superstitions affect our psychology and well-being?
• Live Science: Origins of Friday the 13th
• Smithsonian Magazine
• USAToday: 50 States, 50 Superstitions