FRIDAY THE 13TH

Superstitions are bizarre and a reflection of the projected fears we all have and package them into unreasonable and outlandish expectations of the supernatural.

People who suffer fromfriggatriskaidekaphobia (that’s the freaking name given to people who have this unfounded fear) are not just unreasonably superstitious but also as with the case of religion, they make up these fairy tales and imaginary doomsday scenarios…and it just so happens that they attribute it to only the thirteenth day of the month that falls on a Friday.

A lot of things happen the other 364 days of the year, some even more catastrophic and of course numerous. But these ones below are some of the most notable things that have happened on a Friday the 13^th:

• On Aug. 13, 1521, the Aztec Empire comes to an end after Conquistador Cortés captures the ruler of Tenochtitlán, claiming the city for Spain and renaming it Mexico City.
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• On July 13, 1821 notorious Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest is born in Tennessee.
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• On Sep. 13, 1940, German bombs hit Buckingham Palace, completing destroying the palace’s chapel.
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• On July 13, 1956, Great Britain and the U.S. reject pleas from India and Yugoslavia to stop atmospheric testing of nuclear weaponry. Oh, if only we had listened.
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• On Nov. 13, 1970, a monsoon storm kills close to 300,000 people in Bangladesh. Even worse, the storm causes a flood that kills close to 1 million people in the Ganges Delta and leaves countless more without shelter and other basic necessities.
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• On June 13, 1986, The Olsen twins (Mary-Kate and Ashley) are born. If you happened to catch their movie New York Minute, you clearly know why their birth is included on this unfortunate list.
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• On Jan. 13, 1989, the Friday the 13th virus hits and negatively affects IBM computer all over Great Britain. And in the beginning of the digital age (before troubleshooting and spyware existed) this was a very big deal–and caused mass hysteria.
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• On Oct. 13, 1989, the Dow Jones experienced the second largest drop that it had ever experienced (at the time at least). This event was later nicknamed the Friday the 13th mini crash.

But compared to some of the other major tragedies and catastrophes the world has suffered…don’t you think these are not as significant or at the very least not the worst?

SOURCE: http://www.webpulp.org/humor/the-worst-things-that-ever-happened-on-friday-the-13th/