From 1900 until the present, April 13, has fallen on a Friday 18
times.
This matters to me because, well, Happy Birthday to me!
More importantly, I was born on one of the years (1956) when April
13 landed on a Friday.
That’s something.
Especially when you consider that April 13 will generally land on a
Friday only one or two times each decade.
Furthermore, three or four times each century these April 13th
Fridays will see a span of eleven years between them. The nearest year before
1956 (my year) when April 13 struck a Friday was 1951. The nearest after: 1962.
Since—and including—my year of birth, my birthday had fallen on
the 13th ten times.
Today is a Saturday.
—Mitchell Hegman
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