13 terrible things that happened on Friday the 13th -
An estimated 17 to 21 million people in the U.S. are affilicted by fear of Friday the 13th, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N. C. The fearful may not get out of bed, or fly on a plane. So what could be worse than fearing the worst? Actual events that seem to validate those fears. Here are 13 such events.
Aug. 13, 2010: An engineering train of the London Underground becomes uncoupled and goes on a 13-minute journey with passenger trains having to be cleared out of its path at the Charing Cross branch. The train runs for nearly four miles before stopping at Warren Street, and that too because there is a small incline at the station.
Oct. 13, 2006: 12 people die in freak pre-season snowstorm in Buffalo, N.Y. The storm dumps 22 inches of heavy snow and results in a $30 million cleanup (storm began the previous night)
Aug. 13, 2004: Hurricane Charley makes landfall in Florida. It becomes the fourth costliest hurricane in U.S. history with damages of over $15 billion.
March 13, 1992: Earthquake in Turkey kills over 1,000
June 13, 1986: The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, are born
(Who doesn’t like the occasional tasteless joke?)
Nov. 13, 1970: A huge South Asian storm kills an estimated 300,000 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and creates floods that kill as many as 1 million in the Ganges Delta.
Oct. 13, 1972: A Fairchild F-227 airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Chilean Andes. The 72-day ordeal of the survivors, which includes cannibalism, forms the basis of several books and at least two movies, including Alive and Survive!
March 13, 1964: In the classic case of bystander apathy, a screaming Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death within earshot of 38 residents of her New York neighbourhood.
Dec 13, 1940: Adolf Hitler orders the invasion of Greece (plan is finally carried out in April 1941)
May 13, 1927: German stock market collapses, helping push the country into a depression
May 13, 1864: Battle of Resaca (U.S. Civil War) commences
April 13, 1204: Constantinople is sacked by Crusaders.
Oct 13, 1066: Last day in the rule of Saxon King Harold II. He declines William the Conqueror’s offer to give up the crown and dies in the Battle of Hastings the next day.
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http://www.thestar.com/lists/article/1115029--13-terrible-things-that-happened-on-friday-the-13th
An estimated 17 to 21 million people in the U.S. are affilicted by fear of Friday the 13th, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N. C. The fearful may not get out of bed, or fly on a plane. So what could be worse than fearing the worst? Actual events that seem to validate those fears. Here are 13 such events.
Aug. 13, 2010: An engineering train of the London Underground becomes uncoupled and goes on a 13-minute journey with passenger trains having to be cleared out of its path at the Charing Cross branch. The train runs for nearly four miles before stopping at Warren Street, and that too because there is a small incline at the station.
Oct. 13, 2006: 12 people die in freak pre-season snowstorm in Buffalo, N.Y. The storm dumps 22 inches of heavy snow and results in a $30 million cleanup (storm began the previous night)
Aug. 13, 2004: Hurricane Charley makes landfall in Florida. It becomes the fourth costliest hurricane in U.S. history with damages of over $15 billion.
March 13, 1992: Earthquake in Turkey kills over 1,000
June 13, 1986: The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, are born
(Who doesn’t like the occasional tasteless joke?)
Nov. 13, 1970: A huge South Asian storm kills an estimated 300,000 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and creates floods that kill as many as 1 million in the Ganges Delta.
Oct. 13, 1972: A Fairchild F-227 airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Chilean Andes. The 72-day ordeal of the survivors, which includes cannibalism, forms the basis of several books and at least two movies, including Alive and Survive!
March 13, 1964: In the classic case of bystander apathy, a screaming Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death within earshot of 38 residents of her New York neighbourhood.
Dec 13, 1940: Adolf Hitler orders the invasion of Greece (plan is finally carried out in April 1941)
May 13, 1927: German stock market collapses, helping push the country into a depression
May 13, 1864: Battle of Resaca (U.S. Civil War) commences
April 13, 1204: Constantinople is sacked by Crusaders.
Oct 13, 1066: Last day in the rule of Saxon King Harold II. He declines William the Conqueror’s offer to give up the crown and dies in the Battle of Hastings the next day.
Read more -
http://www.thestar.com/lists/article/1115029--13-terrible-things-that-happened-on-friday-the-13th
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