Wayne even created the first Apple logo, a woodcut-style depiction of Newton under the famed apple tree.īut just 12 days later, Wayne called it quits. It was Wayne who typed up the very first Apple contract, delineating each man's role in the company and their cut of the shares: Jobs (45 percent), Wozniak (45 percent) and Wayne (10 percent). Maybe these folks walked under a ladder or petted a black cat. Or the one guy in a small town who didn't buy a winning lottery ticket.Īlthough most people feel they make their own luck, you can't help feeling that in a lot of these cases, bad luck came through no fault of their own. Or the only person in the history of the world who was unlucky enough to take a nap in the direct path of a falling meteorite. Like the poor sap who was this close to being a member of the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time. But these 10 ridiculously unlucky individuals have a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or being in the exact right place but leaving just before the right time. You've heard of being in the right place at the right time. It was the fifth home Martinez had lost due to hurricanes in Louisiana.
Melanie Martinez and her family stayed in daughter Kala's apartment after their home in Braithwaite, Louisiana flooded during Hurricane Isaac, 2012.
