Friday the 13th: This week's unlucky day
Published On: Jul 13 2012 04:42:20 AM EDT
Updated On: Jul 13 2012 08:13:29 AM EDT
The superstition that this day is unlucky reportedly first appeared in the 19th century, when a biographer wrote about how the Italian musical composer Gioachino Rossini died on the unlucky and fateful day.