Donald Duck
Donald was born on Friday the thirteenth, 3/13 t his was announced in his official biography released in 1941. Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. On March 13th, 2020, another Donald (Trump) declared the first ever 50 state, state of emergency over the Covid-19 pandemic. A study by Scanlon, Luben, Scanlon, & Singleton (1993) attracted attention from popular science literature, as it concluded that "the risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent on the 13th"; however, the authors clearly state that "the numbers of admissions from accidents are too small to allow meaningful analysis". According to folklore historian Donald Dossey, the unlucky nature of the number "13" originated with a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the 13th guest, and arranged for Höðr to shoot Balder with ...