Events related to "unlucky" 13
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| ==Events related to "unlucky" 13== | ==Events related to "unlucky" 13== |
| [[File:Lane Cove West apartments lift shaft.JPG|thumb|The exposed lift shaft of an apartment block under construction. The lift shaft has numbers marking the levels, but the 13th level is marked with a heart instead.]] | [[File:Lane Cove West apartments lift shaft.JPG|thumb|The exposed elevator shaft of an apartment block under construction. The elevator shaft has numbers marking the levels, but the 13th level is marked with a heart instead.]] |
| * On Friday, October 13, 1307, the arrest of the [[Knights Templar]] was ordered by [[Philip IV of France]]. While the number 13 was considered unlucky, Friday the 13th was not considered unlucky at the time. The incorrect idea that their arrest was related to the phobias surrounding Friday the 13th was invented early in the 21st century and popularized by the novel ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Robinson |first=John J. |author-link=John J. Robinson |title=Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry |year=1990 |publisher=M. Evans & Company |isbn=978-0-87131-602-8}}</ref> | * On Friday, October 13, 1307, the arrest of the [[Knights Templar]] was ordered by [[Philip IV of France]]. While the number 13 was considered unlucky, Friday the 13th was not considered unlucky at the time. The incorrect idea that their arrest was related to the phobias surrounding Friday the 13th was invented early in the 21st century and popularized by the novel ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Robinson |first=John J. |author-link=John J. Robinson |title=Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry |year=1990 |publisher=M. Evans & Company |isbn=978-0-87131-602-8}}</ref> |
| * In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers, led by US Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler, came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called [[the Thirteen Club]]. At the first meeting, on January 13, 1881, at 8:13 p.m., thirteen people sat down to dine in Room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many "Thirteen Clubs" sprang up all over North America over the next 45 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future US presidents, from [[Chester A. Arthur]] to [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded due to a lack of interest.<ref>Nick Leys, ''If you bought this, you've already had bad luck'', review of Nathaniel Lachenmayer's ''Thirteen: The World's Most Popular Superstition'', Weekend Australian, 8–9 January 2005</ref> | * In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers, led by US Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler, came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called [[the Thirteen Club]]. At the first meeting, on January 13, 1881, at 8:13 p.m., thirteen people sat down to dine in Room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many "Thirteen Clubs" sprang up all over North America over the next 45 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future US presidents, from [[Chester A. Arthur]] to [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded due to a lack of interest.<ref>Nick Leys, ''If you bought this, you've already had bad luck'', review of Nathaniel Lachenmayer's ''Thirteen: The World's Most Popular Superstition'', Weekend Australian, 8–9 January 2005</ref> |
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| * [[Friday the 13th mini-crash]] was a stock market crash that occurred on Friday, October 13, 1989. | * [[Friday the 13th mini-crash]] was a stock market crash that occurred on Friday, October 13, 1989. |
| * [[Vehicle registration plates of Ireland|Vehicle registration plates in Ireland]] are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e., 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012, and so on). In 2012, there were concerns among members of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) that the prospect of having "13" registered vehicles might discourage motorists from buying new cars because of superstition surrounding the number thirteen, and that car sales and the motor industry (which was already doing badly) would suffer as a result. The government, in consultation with SIMI, introduced a system whereby 2013 registered vehicles would have their registration plates' age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year.<ref>[http://www.independent.ie/national-...o-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-3208978.html ''2013 number plates to be changed to avoid ‘unlucky 13’ ''], ''Irish Independent'', 24 August 2012</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-26890349.html | work=Irish Independent | title=2013 Number Plates To Be Changed To Avoid 'Unlucky 13'}}</ref>{{ref|Note a|1}} | * [[Vehicle registration plates of Ireland|Vehicle registration plates in Ireland]] are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e., 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012, and so on). In 2012, there were concerns among members of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) that the prospect of having "13" registered vehicles might discourage motorists from buying new cars because of superstition surrounding the number thirteen, and that car sales and the motor industry (which was already doing badly) would suffer as a result. The government, in consultation with SIMI, introduced a system whereby 2013 registered vehicles would have their registration plates' age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year.<ref>[http://www.independent.ie/national-...o-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-3208978.html ''2013 number plates to be changed to avoid ‘unlucky 13’ ''], ''Irish Independent'', 24 August 2012</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-26890349.html | work=Irish Independent | title=2013 Number Plates To Be Changed To Avoid 'Unlucky 13'}}</ref>{{ref|Note a|1}} |
| * On, January 2, 2024, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900, carrying the registration JA13XJ, collided with a Japan Coast Guard humanitarian aircraft while landing at Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] from [[New Chitose Airport]] near [[Sapporo]], [[Hokkaido]], as [[2024 Haneda Airport runway collision|Japan Airlines Flight 516]]. The Airbus A350-900 involved in the collision, JA13XJ, was the 13th Airbus A350 delivered to Japan Airlines. | |
| ===Effect on US Shuttle program mission naming=== | ===Effect on US Shuttle program mission naming=== |
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