August 13
August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining.
Events
- 523 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
- 1099 - Paschal II elected Pope.
- 1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
- 1326 - Aradia de Toscano 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
- 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.
- 1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
- 1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, managed to get himself 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.
- 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 Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- 1993 - Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
- 1997 - The popular, controversial animated series South Park debuts on Comedy Central.
- 2004 - The 28th Summer Olympics opens in Athens, Greece (August 29).
- 2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes the Fort Myers area in Florida.
- 2004 - Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
Births
- 582 - Arnulf of Metz, patron saint of brewing (d. 640)
- 900 - Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
- 1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
- 1313 - Aradia de Toscano, insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
- 1422 - William Caxton, printer
- 1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698)
- 1666 - William Wotton, fellow of the English Royal Society
- 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
- 1818 - Lucy Stone, pioneering women's rights activist
- 1820 - Sir George Grove, music historian (d. 1900)
- 1823 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (d. 1910)
- 1851 - Felix Adler, educator (d. 1933)
- 1860 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter (d. 1926)
- 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, 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, English television pioneer (d. 1946)
- 1895 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1902 - Felix Wankel, engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, actor (d. 1999)
- 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, architect (d. 1976)
- 1912 - Salvador Luria, biologist; Nobel Prize, 1969 (d. 1991)
- 1912 - Ben Hogan, golf champion (d. 1997)
- 1913 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
- 1919 - George Shearing, musician
- 1920 - Neville Brand, actor (d. 1992)
- 1927 - Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician
- 1930 - Don Ho, musician
- 1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General
- 1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant, baseball player
- 1941 - Erin Fleming, actress (d. 2003)
- 1948 - Kathleen Battle, soprano
- 1949 - Bobby Clarke, ice hockey star
- 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, singer
- 1952 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer (d. 2004)
- 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor
- 1962 - Youree Cleomili Harris (or Miss Cleo) television psychic
- 1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- 1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- 1970 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player
- 1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player
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)
Holidays and observances
External links
August 12 - August 14 - July 13 - September 13 -- listing of all days
See also: August 13, 1099, 1311, 1313, 1315
