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August 13 is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar .1326 - Aradia de Toscano , according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult and 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 - The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples , and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan .1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés .1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto'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 is 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 .1792 - Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.1814 - The Convention of London , a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces , is signed in London .1913 - Otto Witte , an acrobat , is purportedly 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.1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW ) established as a public company in Germany.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War : Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25 . The Red Army is defeated.1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.1940 - World War II : Battle of Britain begins - the Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts the 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 .1979 - The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.1996 - 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 's first episode is aired.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 .
2008 - Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an indivdual in Olympic history with his win in the men's 200m butterfly .
Births
582 - Arnulf of Metz , French bishop and saint (d. 640 )1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350 )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 )1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria , queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers , French general (d. 1816 )1790 - William Wentworth , Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872 )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 , Irish physicist (d. 1903 )1820 - Sir George Grove , English music historian (d. 1900 )1823 - Goldwin Smith , English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910 )1841 - Johnny Mullagh , Australian First Class cricketer (d. 1891 )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 )1884 - Harry Dean , England cricketer (d. 1957 )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 )
1889 - Camillien Houde , Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958 )1890 - Ellen Osiier , Danish Olympic champion fencer (d. 1962 )1895 - Bert Lahr , American actor (d. 1967 )1899 - Alfred 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 )1908 - Gene Raymond , American actor (d. 1998 )1911 - William Bernbach , Famous Advertiser (d. 1982 )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 )
1914 - Luis Mariano , Basque operetta singer (d. 1970 )1917 - Sid Gordon , American baseball player (d. 1975)1918 - Frederick Sanger , English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1919 - Rex Humbard , American television evangelist (d. 2007 )1919 - Sir George Shearing , British jazz pianist
1920 - Neville Brand , American actor (d. 1992 )1926 - Fidel Castro , Cuban revolutionary and politician1930 - Don Ho , American musician (d. 2007 )1930 - Bernard Manning , English comedian (d. 2007 )
1930 - Wilmer David Mizell , American baseball player (d. 1999 )
1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders , American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States 1935 - Mudcat Grant , American baseball player1935 - Rod Hull , British television entertainer (d. 1999 )
1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez , American pop keyboardist1940 - Tony Cloninger , American baseball player1941 - Erin Fleming , Canadian actress (d. 2003 )1944 - Divina Galica , British athlete and racing driver1944 - Kevin Tighe , American actor
1945 - Lars Engqvist , Swedish politician1945 - Robin Jackman , England cricketer
1947 - John Stocker , Canadian actor1947 - Margareta Winberg , Swedish politician
1948 - Kathleen Battle , American soprano1949 - Bobby Clarke , Canadian ice hockey player1951 - Dan Fogelberg , American singer/songwriter (d. 2007 )1952 - Herb Ritts , American photographer (d. 2004 )1952 - Hughie Thomasson , American musician (d. 2007 )
1954 - Nico Assumpção , Brazilian bass player (d. 2001 )1955 - Keith Ahlers , British racing driver1955 - Hideo Fukuyama , Japanese racing driver
1955 - Paul Greengrass , English film director
1958 - Fergal Sharkey , musician1958 - Randall Shughart , American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993 )
1959 - Danny Bonaduce , American actor1959 - Tom Niedenfuer , American baseball player
1959 - Bruce French , England cricketer
1960 - Phil Taylor , English darts player1960 - Koji Kondo , Japanese composer
1961 - Dawnn Lewis , American actress1961 - Stuart Maconie , English music writer and broadcaster
1961 - Tom Perrotta , American novelist
1961 - Sunil Shetty , Indian Actor, Producer
1961 - Neil Mallender , England cricketer
1963 - John Slattery , American actor1963 - Sridevi , Indian actress
1964 - Jay Buhner , American baseball player1964 - Hank Cheyne , American actor
1965 - Mark Lemke , American baseball player1965 - Hayato Matsuo , Japanese composer
1966 - Shayne Corson , Canadian ice hockey player1967 - Amélie Nothomb , Belgian writer1969 - Midori Ito , Japanese figure skater1970 - Will Clarke , American novelist1970 - Elvis Grbac , American football player
1970 - Matt Hyson , American professional wrestler
1970 - Alan Shearer , English footballer
1971 - Moritz Bleibtreu , German actor1971 - Patrick Carpentier , Quebec race car driver
1971 - Rolando Molina , Salvadoran-born actor
1972 - Kevin Plank , American entrepreneur (Under Armour )1972 - John Safran , Australian television presenter.
1973 - Brittany Andrews , American pornographic actress1973 - Molly Henneberg , American journalist
1973 - Eric Medlen , American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007 )
1974 - Jarrod Washburn , American baseball player1975 - Shoaib Akhtar , Pakistani cricketer1975 - James Carpinello , American actor
1975 - Joe Perry , English snooker player
1975 - Marty Turco , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Michael Klim , Australian swimmer1978 - Benjani Mwaruwari , Zimbabwean footballer1979 - Román Colón , Dominican baseball player1979 - Corey Patterson , American baseball player
1979 - Taizō Sugimura , Japanese politician
1982 - Shani Davis , American speed skater1983 - Ales Hemsky , Czech ice hockey player1983 - Ľubomír Michalík , Slovakian footballer
1983 - Sebastian Stan , Romanian-born actor
1984 - Niko Kranjčar , Croatian footballer1984 - Boone Logan , American baseball player
1984 - Heath Pearce , American soccer player
1986 - Joseph Lapira , American soccer player1992 - Katharine Close , Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
Deaths
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 painter1617 - 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 )1721 - Jacques Lelong , French bibliographer (b. 1665 )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 )1937 - Arthur Plunkett , Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)1946 - H. G. Wells , English writer (b. 1866 )1948 - Elaine Hammerstein , American actress (b. 1897 )1958 - Otto Witte , acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868 )1965 - Ikeda Hayato , Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899 )1982 - Joe Tex , American singer and songwriter (b. 1933 )1984 - Tigran Petrosian , Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929 )1989 - Tim Richmond , American race car driver (b. 1955 )1989 - Larkin Smith , U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944 )
1991 - Jack Ryan , American designer (Barbie ) (b. 1926 )1995 - Jan Křesadlo , Czech-born writer (b. 1926 )1995 - Mickey Mantle , American baseball player (b. 1931 )
1996 - António de Spínola , Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1910 )1996 - David Tudor , American pianist and composer (b. 1926 )
1998 - Nino Ferrer , French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934 )1998 - Julien Green , American novelist (b. 1900 )
1999 - Jaime Garzón , Colombian journalist and comedian , murdered (b. 1960 )2000 - Nazia Hassan , Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965 )2001 - Otto Stuppacher , Austrian racing driver (b. 1947 )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 )2006 - Tony Jay , English actor (b. 1933 )2006 - Payao Poontarat , Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957 )
2007 - Brian Adams , aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964 )2007 - Brooke Astor , American philanthropist (b. 1902 )
2007 - Yone Minagawa , Japanese woman, oldest person (114) (b. 1893 )
2007 - Phil Rizzuto , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917 )
2008 - Bill Gwatney , American political figure (b. 1959 )2008 - Dino Toso , American Formula-1 engineer (b. 1969 )
2008 - Jack Weil , American oldest working CEO (b. 1901 )
2008 - Sandy Allen , American tallest woman in the world (b. 1955 )
2008 - Henri Cartan ,French mathematician (b. 1904 )
Holidays and observances
Saint Cassian (Cassianus of Imola), bishop of Brescia , martyr [Brixen, Magdeburg, Ratzeburg, Regensburg, Trent], patron saint of shorthand-writers, and of Mexico City Saints Pontianus , pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs
Hippolytus and companions, martyrs [common]Saint John Berchmans Saint John Bosco Saint Wigbert , prior, confessor [Mainz]Saint Clare of Assisi [Paris]Saint Radegunde , Radegundis, help against the pox, virgin (sometimes also queen) [France; Paris]
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