August 13

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August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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 - The 28th Summer Olympics 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.
2004 - Adam Curry's first Daily Source Code is created, launching podcasting.

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Births

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)
1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen 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)
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)
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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
1913 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Pirze 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
1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General
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
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
1970 - Matthew Hyson, American professional wrestler
1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
1973 - Brittany Andrews, American model and actress
1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player
1977 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
1979 - Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician

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Deaths

586 - Radegund, queen of Clotaire I
900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, queen 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)
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).
2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929).
2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
2005 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister (assassinated) (b.1932)
2005 - David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

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Holidays and observances

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 the 13th of August (agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (desgosto)