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noun
fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
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Didn't we just have a Friday the 13th diary last month? Why yes, yes we did. In fact Friday the 13th will happen three times this year. November 13th will be the third. Friday the 13th trilogies are actually not that uncommon, the last occurring in 2009 and the next will be in 2026, then again in 2037. There is a pattern but it involves calendar math, it's Friday, who has the time or patients for calendar math? If you'd like to learn more try visiting this blog post.
What does this have to do with President Franklin D. Roosevelt? Turns out President Roosevelt suffered from triskaidekaphobia. The President did not like to travel on Friday the 13th.
Journalist and Roosevelt biographer John Gunther wrote, “Like most people with good luck, FDR was moderately—not excessively—superstitious. He hated Friday the thirteenth, he would never start an important trip on a Friday if he could help it, and he disliked sitting down with thirteen at dinner.”So much for, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on Thursday, April 12, 1945, so maybe 13 wasn't out to get him after all.
