August 13
is the 225th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (226th in
leap years), with 140 days remaining.
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3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the
Maya calendar starts.
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523 -
John succeeds
Hormisdas as
Pope.
*
1099 -
Paschal II elected
Pope.
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1315 -
Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
*
1326 -
Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a
Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of
Stregheria later known as the
Malandanti.
*
1415 -
Hundred Years' War:
Henry V of England lands at
Chef-en-Caux,
France with 8000 men.
*
1516 -
Treaty of Noyon between
France and
Spain signed. In it,
Francis recognizes
Charles's claim to
Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to
Milan.
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1521 -
Tenochtitlán (present day
Mexico City) falls to
conquistador Hernán Cortés*
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto's
Enryaku Temple set fire to 21
Nichiren temples throughout
Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional
Japanese date:
July 27 1536).
*
1553 -
Michael Servetus arrested by
John Calvin in
Geneva as a
heretic.
*
1704 -
War of the Spanish Succession:
Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
*
1814 - The
Convention of London, a
treaty between the
United Kingdom and the
United Provinces, is signed in
London.
*
1905 -
Norway holds
referendum in favour of dissolving the union with
Sweden.
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1913 -
Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of
Albania.
* 1913 - Invention of
stainless steel by
Harry Brearley.
*
1918 - Women enlist in the
United States Marine Corps for the first time.
Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
*
1920 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till
August 25. The
Red Army is defeated.
*
1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at
Gdynia, newly constructed
Polish seaport.
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1937 -
Battle of Shanghai begins.
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1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Britain begins - The
Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on
British fighter bases and
radar installations.
*
1942 -
Walt Disney's fifth
animated feature,
Bambi, premieres.
*
1954 -
Radio Pakistan broadcasts
National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
*
1960 - The
Central African Republic declares independence from
France.
*
1961 - The
German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of
Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the
West.
*
1968 -
Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel G. Papadopoulos in Varkiza,
Athens,
Greece.
*
1973 -
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto elected
Prime Minister of Pakistan.
*
1979 - The roof of the uncompleted
Rosemont Horizon near
Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
*
1987 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the
Iran-Contra scandal.
*
1991 - The
SNES (
Super Nintendo Entertainment System) debuts in the USA.
*
1996 -
Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of
kidnapping. All are found guilty on
June 22,
2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.
*
1997 -
South Park debuts on
Comedy Central.
*
2004 -
Olympic Games:
Summer Olympic Games - The
Games of the XXVIII Olympiad open in
Athens, Greece.
* 2004 -
Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes
Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
* 2004 -
Black Friday crackdown by
NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of
Maldives,
Malé.
* 2004 - 156
Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the
Gatumba refugee camp in
Burundi.
* 2004 -
Adam Curry's first
Daily Source Code is created, launching
podcasting.
*
582 -
Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d.
640)
*
1311 - King
Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d.
1350)
*
1313 -
Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
*
1584 -
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d.
1640)
*
1625 -
Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d.
1698)
*
1662 -
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d.
1748)
*
1666 -
William Wotton, English scholar (d.
1727)
*
1700 -
Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d.
1763)
*
1717 -
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d.
1776)
*
1721 -
Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b.
1665)
*
1764 -
Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d.
1816)
*
1792 -
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen,
Queen consort of
William IV of the United Kingdom (d.
1849)
*
1803 -
Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d.
1869)
*
1814 -
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d.
1874)
*
1818 -
Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d.
1893)
*
1819 -
George Gabriel Stokes, French physicist (d.
1903)
*
1820 - Sir
George Grove, English music historian (d.
1900)
*
1823 -
Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d.
1910)
*
1851 -
Felix Adler, German-born educator (d.
1933)
*
1860 -
Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d.
1926)
*
1866 -
Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d.
1945)
*
1872 -
Richard Willstätter, German chemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1942)
*
1879 -
John Ireland, English composer (d.
1962)
*
1887 -
Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d.
1952)
*
1888 -
John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d.
1946)
*1888 -
Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d.
1975)
*
1895 -
Bert Lahr, American actor (d.
1967)
*
1899 -
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d.
1980)
*
1902 -
Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d.
1988)
*
1904 -
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d.
1999)
*
1907 - Sir
Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d.
1976)
*
1912 -
Ben Hogan, American golfer (d.
1997)
* 1912 -
Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1991)
*
1913 -
Fred Davis, English snooker player (d.
1998)
* 1913 -
Makarios III,
Archbishop and first
President of Cyprus (d.
1977)
*
1918 -
Frederick Sanger, English chemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate*
1919 -
George Shearing, British musician
*
1920 -
Neville Brand, American actor (d.
1992)
*
1926 -
Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
*
1930 -
Don Ho, American musician
* 1930 -
Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (d.
1999)
*
1933 - Doctor
Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th
Surgeon General of the United States*
1935 -
Mudcat Grant, baseball player
*
1940 -
Tony Cloninger, baseball player
*
1941 -
Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d.
2003)
*
1944 -
Kevin Tighe, American actor
*
1948 -
Kathleen Battle, American soprano
*
1949 -
Bobby Clarke, Canadian hockey player
*
1951 -
Dan Fogelberg, American singer
*
1952 -
Herb Ritts, American photographer (d.
2004)
*
1959 -
Danny Bonaduce, American actor
* 1959 -
Tom Niedenfuer, baseball player
*
1960 -
Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
*
1961 -
Sandra Miranda, Puerto Rican entrepreneur
*
1964 -
Jay Buhner, American baseball player
*
1967 -
Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
*
1969 -
Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
*
1970 -
Matthew Hyson, American professional wrestler
* 1970 -
Alan Shearer, English footballer
*
1971 -
Nichola Holt, British reality star
*
1972 -
Hani Hanjour,
September 11, 2001 attacks pilot and terrorist
*
1973 -
Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress & exotic dancer
* 1973 -
Molly Henneberg, American journalist
*
1975 -
Joe Perry, English snooker player
* 1975 -
Marty Turco, Canadian hockey player
*
1975 -
Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani Fast bowler
*
1977 -
Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
*
1978 -
Paul Banks, AKA Lloyd Banks
*
1979 -
Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician
*
1982 -
Shani Davis, American speed skater
*
1983 -
Ales Hemsky, Czech hockey player
*
1992 -
Katharine Close, Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Winner of 2006
*
586 -
Radegund, wife of
Clotaire I*
900 -
Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b.
870)
*
1134 -
Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of
John II Comnenus*
1382 -
Eleanor of Aragon, wife of
John I of Castile (b.
1358)
*
1523 -
Gerard David, Flemish painter
*
1617 -
Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b.
1540)
*
1667 -
Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b.
1613)
*
1686 -
Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b.
1610)
*
1744 -
John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b.
1678)
*
1749 -
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b.
1719)
*
1755 -
Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b.
1684)
*
1826 -
René Laënnec, French physician (b.
1781)
*
1863 -
Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b.
1798)
*
1865 -
Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b.
1818)
*
1910 -
Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b.
1820)
*
1912 -
Jules Massenet, French composer (b.
1842)
*
1917 -
Eduard Buchner, German chemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (b.
1860)
*
1946 -
H. G. Wells, English writer (b.
1866)
*
1958 -
Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b.
1868)
*
1965 -
Ikeda Hayato,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1899)
*
1984 -
Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b.
1929).
*
1989 -
Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b.
1955)
*
1994 -
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate (b.
1905)
*
1995 -
Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b.
1926)
* 1995 -
Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b.
1931)
*
1996 -
David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b.
1926)
*
1999 -
Jaime Garzón,
Colombian
journalist and
comedian, murdered (b.
1960)
*
2003 -
Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b.
1929)
*
2004 -
Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b.
1912)
*
2005 -
David Lange, 32nd
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.
1942)
*
Roman festivals -
Vertumnalias in honor of
Vertumnus, and also Diana, on the
Aventine hill
*
RC saints -
Pontianus and
Hippolytus,
Radegunde (help against the pox),
Cassianus of Imola (patron of shorthand-writers)
*
International Lefthanders Day* In Brasil, Friday
13 August (
agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (
desgosto)
*
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 6 saints:
**St.
Hippolytus**St.
Cassian**St.
John Berchmans**St.
John Bosco**St.
Radegund**St.
Wigbert*
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July 13 -
September 13 --
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