August 13
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[change] Births
- 1926 - Fidel Castro
- 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1913 - Archbishop Makarios
[change] Deaths
- 586 - Radegund, Queen consort of Clotaire I
- 900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia
- 1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop
- 1686 - Louis Maimbourg, historian
- 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse
- 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
- 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat (b. 1868)
- 1964 - Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain.
- 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
- 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, chess player (b. 1929).
- 1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
- 1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
- 1995 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1931)
- 1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
- 1996 - David Tudor, pianist and composer (b. 1926).
- 2003 - Ed Townsend, songwriter and producer
- 2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
[change] Events
- 3113 B.C. - Maya Calendar, started on this date.
- 523 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
- 1099 - Paschal II elected Pope.
- 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 - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 - The Japanese attack Shanghai, China.
- 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, premiers.
- 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.
- 1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- 1996 - Dutroux, his wife Martin and Lelièvre were arrested.
- 1997 - South Park debuts on Comedy Central.
- 2004 - Games of the XXVIII Olympiad opens in Athens, Greece.
- 2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes the Fort Myers, Florida, 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.