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Happy Friday the 13th

According to MSNBC the following has all happened on this day…

  • Benjamin Franklin writes “Everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes” on Friday, Nov. 13, 1789.
  • One of America’s most loathsome historical figures, Confederate general/slave trader/Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest, is born on Friday, July 13, 1821.
  • Anthony Foss, for reasons known only to himself, patents the accordion on Friday, Jan. 13, 1854.
  • Tennessee passes a law making it illegal to teach evolution on Friday, March 13, 1925.
  • Spielplatz, generally considered the first nudist colony, opens in Bricket Wood, England, on Friday, June 13, 1930. Please be seated. No really — please.
  • German bombs damage Buckingham Palace on Friday, Sept. 13, 1940.
    Annoying pixieish actress Didi Conn is born on Friday, July 13, 1951.
    A huge south Asian storm is estimated to kill 300,000 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and create floods that kill as many as 1 million in the Ganges delta on Friday, Nov. 13, 1970.
  • Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., on Friday, May 13, 1977.
  • “Friday the 13th” opens Friday, June 13, 1980.
  • Yeah, him, the other Beatle — also known as Ringo Starr — releases “Wrack My Brain” on Friday, Nov. 13, 1981. It does not chart.
  • The Olsen twins are born on Friday, June 13, 1986.
  • The Friday the 13th virus afflicts IBM computers across in Britain on Friday, Jan. 13, 1989. At the time, this is considered a Big Deal.
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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