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  2. October 13 - Wikipedia

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    October 13. October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 79 days remain until the end of the year.

  3. Columbus Day - Wikipedia

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    October 12 (United States) Frequency. Annual. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12 ...

  4. History of the Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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    At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. Then they were put to death.

  5. 14 wonderful things that happened on Friday the 13th - AOL

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    The first scientifically recognized dinosaur eggs were discovered on July 13, 1923. Friday the 13th has a long history of freaking people out. ... The Eras Tour" premiered on October 13.

  6. Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an ...

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    Hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested on October 13, 1307, and many were later executed. Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" popularized the erroneous theory this is the original of the Friday ...

  7. Friday the 13th - Wikipedia

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    The shortest period that occurs with a Friday the 13th is just one month, from February to March in a common year starting on Thursday (D) (e.g. 2009, 2015 and 2026). On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 days. Friday the 13ths occurs with an average frequency of 1.7218 per year or about 3477 since the year 1 CE.

  8. October - Wikipedia

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    Maple leaf in October (Northern hemisphere). October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.

  9. The Friday the 13th superstitions that carry on to this day - AOL

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    Spooky season gets extra scary with the 13th of October falling on an unlucky Friday this year. Although the 13th day of the month falls on a Friday one to three times a year, and already occurred ...