August 13

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 13. From 1900 until now. August 13 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Manuel Valls (1962), Fidel Castro (1926) and Sridevi (1963). Several movies were released around August 13 over the years, such as Animal Crackers in 1930 directed by Victor Heerman and Foreign Correspondent in 1940 directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
But much more happened on August 13 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

International Lefthanders Day
St. Wigbert
RC saints - Pontianus and Hippolytus, Radegunde (help against the pox), Cassianus of Imola (patron of shorthand-writers)
In Brasil, Friday 13 August (agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (desgosto)
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 6 saints: St. Hippolytus
St. Cassian
St. John Berchmans
St. John Bosco
St. Radegund
Roman festivals - Vertumnalias in honor of Vertumnus, and also Diana, on the Aventine hill
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Events

2018 War in Afghanistan: More than 100 Afghan soldiers and police, 13 civilians and hundreds of Taliban are killed during the ongoing offensive in Ghazni. (BBC)The Taliban captures Camp Chenaya, an Afghan Army base in Ghormach District, Faryab Province. (Voice of America)
2017 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): During combat operations in northern Iraq, two U.S. service members are killed and five injured. (Reuters)
2016 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): At least 10 children are killed and 28 injured in an air attack on a school in northern Yemen. The Houthi group claims that the Saudi Arabia led coalition is responsible. (Reuters via ABC News)
2015 2015 Baghdad market truck bomb, Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): A truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills at least 76 people and wounds 212 others. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters), (The Daily Mail)
2014 Associated Press journalist Simone Camilli, a freelance translator and four Gaza police officers are killed when police tried to defuse unexploded ordnance. (AP)
2013 Footage of the isolated and previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is recorded for the first time in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil. (GloboNews)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 Stage rigging collapses at the Indiana State Fair, killing at least five and injuring dozens of fans of the musical group Sugarland and singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles. (CNN)
2010 U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White bans the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by Monsanto, ruling that in 2009 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had approved Monsanto's genetically modified sugar beets without adequate environmental study.
2009 Les Paul, country and jazz musician, electric guitar pioneer, dies at the age of 94 from complications of pneumonia in New York, USA. He was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
2008 At the Beijing Olympics, American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 10th and 11th career gold medals, in men's 200-metre butterfly and 4x200 freestyle relay in world record 6:58.56). Phelps is now the record holder of most career Olympic gold medals.
2007 Two Belgian tourists who went missing last week in Iran appear to have been kidnapped by a bandit who is demanding that his brother be freed from prison. (AFP via AfricaAsia)
2006 Iraq sectarian violence:
2005 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
2004 Hurricane Charley kills 27 people in Florida after killing four in Cuba and one in Jamaica. Charley made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. Charley is the most intense hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
2003 Ivan Jovović and Bogdan Bukomirić, both 16 years old, from Goraždevac near Peć die after two attackers fired AK-47s on a group of children from Goraždevac who were bathing in the river Bistrica. Four children were injured in the attack, two of which are in critical condition. UNMIK and KFOR claimed that they transferred one of them, Marko Bogićević, to Belgrade, but he is actually in a German military hospital at Prizren, against his parents' wishes. An Italian KFOR patrol refused to lend fuel
2002 Extreme weather: On the seventh day of heavy rains, the peak of 100-year flood of the Vltava River reaches Prague, and the Kampa district is submerged under several yards of water, as well as the Prague Zoo, killing an elephant, five rhinoceros, a lion, a gorilla and 80 birds, and allowing five seals to escape. The Kampa Museum is flooded. 15,000 people were evacuated from Mělník, and 1,600 people were evacuated from Děčín. The death toll in Europe is at 88, 9 in the Czech Republic.
1997 Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the New York Yankees
1996 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
1995 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera, California
1994 Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
1993 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
1991 Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
1989 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
1988 Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
1987 Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1984 Morocco and Libya sign Arabic-African Union treaty
1982 In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory.Clarence Tsui, ''South China Morning Post'', 12/12/99, webpage: ITobacco330.
1981 Last broadcast of Waltons on CBS-TV
1980 Suriname President Johan Ferrier ousted
1979 Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1978 Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
1977 1st test glide of shuttle
1972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last Bonanza
1971 Paul and Linda McCartney release Back Seat of My Car
1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
1967 WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 The rock group Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begins to appear there regularly.
1964 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1962 Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1960 Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France
1959 Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1956 WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
1953 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1952 Japan joins the IMF.
1951 Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1948 Satchel Paige at age 42 pitches his first major league complete game.
1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus.
1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
1944 British 8th army occupies Florence
1943 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1942 RKO Radio Pictures premieres the Disney film Bambi in the US at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1941 Red army evacuates Smolensk
1940 Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1939 Sabotage suspected in crash of the City of San Francisco which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada).
1937 Japanese attack Shanghai
1934 The comic strip ''Li'l Abner'' is first published in US newspapers.
1933 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound Country Club - Milwaukee
1932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers andwins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1931 Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
1928 Soviet Union's Spartacan Games begin.
1923 Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes Premier of coalition government
1920 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1914 Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1913 Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1908 Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
1907 1st taxicab (NYC)
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas.
1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
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