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This day in history: 13 August

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377 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 13 August.
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2020: Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Benedetto Sinigardi

Christian feast day: Benildus Romançon

Christian feast day: Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg

Christian feast day: Blessed Jakob Gapp

Christian feast day: Blessed Marco d'Aviano

Christian feast day: Cassian of Imola

Christian feast day: Clara Maass (Lutheran Church)

Christian feast day: Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill (Lutheran Church)

Christian feast day: Hippolytus of Rome

Christian feast day: Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)

Christian feast day: John Berchmans

Events

2020Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.

2015At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.

2014A Cessna Citation Excel crashes in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil killing all seven people aboard, including Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos.

2008Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

2004One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

1997The animated TV comedy South Park airs its very first episode.

1990A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Pin

1978One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

1977Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

1973Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing all 85 people on the plane and one other one the ground.

1969The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.

1968Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.

1967Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.

1964Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

1961Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started. The day is known as Barbed Wire Sunday.

1960The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

1954Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

1944World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.

1942Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

1940World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches an air operation, codenamed Adlertag, during the Battle of Britain in an attempt to destroy the British Royal Air Force.

1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.

1920Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.

1918Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.

1918Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

1913First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

1906The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Th

1905Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.

1900The steamer Deutschland of Hamburg America Lines sets a new record for the eastward passage when it docks in Plymouth, England, five days, 11 hours and 45 minutes after sailing from New York, breaking by three hours, six minutes its previou

1898Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.

1898Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

1889William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."

1876A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold opens the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival.

1868The 8.5–9.0 Mw Arica earthquake strikes southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin-wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.

1814The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Netherlands, is signed in London, England.

1806Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle ends two days later with a Serbian victory over the Ottomans.

1792King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

1779American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1724Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a chorale cantata on a famous tune.

1704War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

1650Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

Born on this day

2000Na Jaemin, South Korean rapper, singer, dancer and actor

1999Lennon Stella, Canadian singer and actress

1998Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player

1996Antonia Lottner, German tennis player

1994Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1993Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player (died 2024)

1993Moses Mbye, Australian rugby league player

1992Alicja Tchórz, Polish swimmer

1992Katrina Gorry, Australian football player

1992Lucas Moura, Brazilian footballer

1992Taijuan Walker, American baseball player

1991Dave Days, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1991Lesley Doig, Scottish lawn bowler

1990Benjamin Stambouli, French footballer

1990DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player

1989Greg Draper, New Zealand footballer

1989Israel Jiménez, Mexican footballer

1989Justin Greene, American basketball player

1988Brandon Workman, American baseball player

1988Jerry Hughes, American football player

1988Keith Benson, American basketball player

1987Devin McCourty, American football player

1987Jamie Reed, Welsh footballer

1987Jason McCourty, American football player

1987Jose Lorenzo Diokno, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter

1986Demetrious Johnson, American mixed martial artist

1985Gerrit van Look, German rugby player and coach

1984Alona Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player

1984Boone Logan, American baseball player

1984James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1984Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

1983Aleš Hemský, Czech ice hockey player

1983Christian Müller, German footballer

1983Dallas Braden, American baseball player

1983Ľubomír Michalík, Slovak footballer

1982Christopher Raeburn, English fashion designer

1982Ibram X. Kendi, American author and antiracist activist

1982Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, American political consultant and press secretary

1982Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor

1979Corey Patterson, American baseball player

Died on this day

2026Prichard Colón, Puerto Rican boxer (born 1992)

2024Frank Selvy, American basketball player and coach (born 1932)

2024Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)

2024Richard Alatorre, American politician (born 1943)

2024Sergio Donati, Italian screenwriter (born 1933)

2024Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos (born 1936)

2021Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter (born 1953)

2018Jim Neidhart, American wrestler (born 1955)

2016Kenny Baker, English actor and musician (born 1934)

2016Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu leader (born 1921)

2015Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1920)

2015Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (born 1928)

2015Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Interior (born 1952)

2014Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician, 14th Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology (born 1965)

2014Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (born 1934)

2014Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (born 1933)

2014Süleyman Seba, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1926)

2013Aaron Selber, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (born 1927)

2013Jean Vincent, French footballer and manager (born 1930)

2013Lothar Bisky, German politician (born 1941)

2012Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (born 1922)

2012Hugo Adam Bedau, American philosopher and academic (born 1926)

2012Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (born 1917)

2012Johnny Pesky, American baseball player and manager (born 1919)

2012Ray Jordon, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1937)

2011Mishuk Munier, Bangladeshi journalist and cinematographer (born 1959)

2011Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1957)

2010Edwin Newman, American journalist and author (born 1919)

2010Lance Cade, American wrestler (born 1981)

2010Panagiotis Bachramis, Greek footballer (born 1976)

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