Friday & 13th

Today which is 13th June, 2008 falls on Friday. Any weird cases happen to you today?
Is this just an urban legend or some culture references? But some might think that it is just an unlucky day.

Some history you might be interested to know…..

1. There was an explosion of an oxygen tank of Apollo 13, which was on its way to moon. The explosion occurred on April 13, 1970.


2. Columbia Space Shuttle sent into space on 16-01-2003 (1+6+0+1+2+0+0+3 = 13) exploded during reentry and all crew members (including Kalpana Chawla of India) died.


3. UPHAAR CINEMA TRAGEDY CASE (INDIA): A fire took place at Uphaar Cinema building, Delhi (India) on friday 13th June, 1997 resulting in the death of 59 persons and injury to about 100 persons.


4. SADDAM HUSSEIN contain 13 letters (S,A,D,D,A,M,H,U,S,S,E,I,N) and was captured on 13 th December, 2003.

Well this is just a coincidence or it really makes a sense here. Eww… Look into history makes me feel creepy.

Unlucky 13th become famous when Alexander wanted to be a God and accordingly made a 13th statue on the place of his capital. He died and people considered that his will to be a 13th God (12 gods, one for each month were known) was the reason of his death. After that this number was considered as unlucky.
Another legend saying that unlucky 13th famous based on historian, there were 13 people at Christ's Last Supper and Christ was crucified on Friday 13th. So, Friday 13th is considered as Unlucky.

Well people are becoming so superstition because of that… So you will notice the following:
1. People don’t go to work on Friday 13th
2. People don’t held their wedding on Friday 13th
3. People choose not to travel on Friday 13th
4. Most building don’t have floor 13th
5. In aircraft you never see row number 13

I am staying at home and never go out today. If you have any experience…. Probably you would like to share it with me…Leave your comments here...