3. Employment equality
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an order stating that the government couldn’t discriminate based on gender when it came to employment, it was Friday, October 13, 1967. Prior to this, President Johnson had signed a landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964. These acts of progress toward equality can definitely be filed under Friday the 13th’s most positive moments in our history.
4. Hooray for Hollywood
Tinseltown’s iconic Hollywood sign was actually dedicated on July 13, 1923, which was a Friday. At the beginning the sign read “Hollywoodland,” as an advertisement for a real estate development. But in 1949, the “land” was erased from the sign and Hollywood remained, according to the sign’s official website.
