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Are you superstitious about freak events occurring on Friday the 13th each year? Check out a few famous happenings on this day from the past several decades. Oct. 13, 2006: 12 people die in freak pre-season snowstorm in Buffalo, N.Y. The storm dumps 22 inches of heavy snow and results in a $30 million cleanup. The storm began the previous night. Oct. 13, 1972: A Fairchild F-227 airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Chilean Andes. The 72-day ordeal of the survivors, which includes cannibalism, forms the basis of several books and at least two movies, including Alive and Survive! March 13, 1964: In the classic case of bystander apathy, a screaming Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death within earshot of 38 residents of her New York neighborhood. Dec 13, 1940: Adolf Hitler orders the invasion of Greece, and the plan is finally carried out in April 1941. Want more? Check out nine other terrible things that occurred on Friday the 13th.

Are you superstitious about freak events occurring on Friday the 13th each year? Check out a few famous happenings on this day from the past several decades.

  1. Oct. 13, 2006: 12 people die in freak pre-season snowstorm in Buffalo, N.Y. The storm dumps 22 inches of heavy snow and results in a $30 million cleanup. The storm began the previous night.
  2. Oct. 13, 1972: A Fairchild F-227 airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Chilean Andes. The 72-day ordeal of the survivors, which includes cannibalism, forms the basis of several books and at least two movies, including Alive and Survive!
  3. March 13, 1964: In the classic case of bystander apathy, a screaming Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death within earshot of 38 residents of her New York neighborhood.
  4. Dec 13, 1940: Adolf Hitler orders the invasion of Greece, and the plan is finally carried out in April 1941.

Want more? Check out nine other terrible things that occurred on Friday the 13th.

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