In the lateth century, a New Yorker named Captain William Fowler sought to remove the enduring stigma surrounding the number 13—and particularly the unwritten rule about not having 13 guests at a dinner table—by founding an exclusive society called the Thirteen Club. The group dined regularly on the 13th day of the month in room 13 of the Knickerbocker Cottage, a popular watering hole Fowler owned from to Four former U. An important milestone in the history of the Friday the 13th legend in particular not just the number 13 occurred in , with the publication of the novel Friday, the Thirteenth written by Thomas William Lawson.
The book told the story of a New York City stockbroker who plays on superstitions about the date to create chaos on Wall Street, and make a killing on the market. The horror movie Friday the 13th , released in , introduced the world to a hockey mask-wearing killer named Jason, and is perhaps the best-known example of the famous superstition in pop culture history.
The movie spawned multiple sequels, as well as comic books, novellas, video games, related merchandise and countless terrifying Halloween costumes. On Friday, October 13, , officers of King Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templar , a powerful religious and military order formed in the 12th century for the defense of the Holy Land.
Imprisoned on charges of various illegal behaviors but really because the king wanted access to their financial resources , many Templars were later executed. Some cite the link with the Templars as the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition, but like many legends involving the Templars and their history, the truth remains murky.
In more recent times, a number of traumatic events have occurred on Friday the 13th, including the German bombing of Buckingham Palace September ; the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York March ; a cyclone that killed more than , people in Bangladesh November ; the disappearance of a Chilean Air Force plane in the Andes October ; the death of rapper Tupac Shakur September and the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, which killed 30 people January But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Already subscribed? Log in. Whenever a common year begins on a Thursday, the months of February, March, and November will have a Friday the 13th.
This will happen 11 times in the 21st century. The February-March-November pattern repeats in a year cycle. In the 21st century, the period began in In , 6 years later, Friday the 13th occurred in February, March, and November.
This won't happen for 11 more years until , and we'll have to wait again for 11 years until to see the February, March, and November trilogy. Three Friday the 13ths can occur in a leap year as well. If January 1 of a leap year falls on a Sunday, the months of January, April, and July will each have a Friday the 13th.
In the 20th century, this happened in , , and And in the 21st century, this will happen four times in , , , and Notice something interesting? Yes, it is the year cycle again! The master of suspense was born on August 13, —so Friday, August 13, , would have been his th birthday.
He made his directorial debut in with a movie called Number Unfortunately, the film was doomed from the start and never got off the ground due to financial troubles. Friday the 13th is not universally seen as a day of misery. For example, in Italy, Friday the 17th and not Friday the 13th is considered to be a day that brings bad luck. In fact, the number 13 is thought to be a lucky number!
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