Wikipedia: August 13

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.

Events

1521 - Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Fernando Cortes
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
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 animated cartoon "Bambi" premiers.
1960 - Central African Republic declares independence from France
1960 - Chad declares independence from France
1961 - German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to frustrate its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.

Births

1422 - William Caxton, printer
1625 - Erasmus Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist († 1698)
1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom
1818 - Lucy Stone, pioneering women's rights activist
1820 - Sir George Grove, author, Dictionary of Music and Musicians († 1900)
1823 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist († 1910)
1851 - Felix Adler, educator, founder of the Ethical Movement († 1933)
1860 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter († 1926)
1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, industrialist († 1945)
1888 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer († 1946)
1895 - Bert Lahr, actor († 1967)
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, director († 1980)
1902 - Felix Wankel, engineer and inventor († 1988)
1904 - Charles (Buddy) Rogers, actor († 1999)
1907 - Sir Basil Spence, architect († 1976)
1912 - Salvador Luria, biologist; Nobel Prize, 1969 († 1991)
1912 - Ben Hogan, golf champion
1919 - George Shearing, musician
1920 - Neville Brand, actor († 1992)
1926 - Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician
1930 - Don Ho, musician
1933 - Doctor Jocelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General
1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant, baseball player
1948 - Kathleen Battle, opera singer
1949 - Bobby Clarke, ice hockey star
1951 - Dan Fogelberg, singer
1952 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor
1970 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player

Deaths

1863 - Eugene Delacroix, painter
1946 - H. G. Wells, writer
1964 - Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain.
1995 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Fame member
1996 - David Tudor, pianist and composer

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Vertumnalias in honor of Vertumnus

See Also:

August 12 - August 14 - July 13 - September 13 -- listing of all days

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