What are the important events that happened on August 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 13 is the 226th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 31, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,723,507,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaicosahexagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 169 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,253 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 13 Historical Events
- 1898 –Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
- 1913 –First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1960 –The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 1962 –Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.
- 1977 –Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
- 1978 –150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
- 2004 –156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
- 2004 –Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
- 2011 –The main stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis during a hurricane-force wind gust ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm, killing 7 and injuring 45.
Who were born on August 13?
- 1700 –Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
- 1752 –Maria Carolina of Austria, queen consort of Naples and Sicily, wife of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
- 1792 –Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
- 1879 –John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)
- 1914 –Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
- 1929 –Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor
- 1954 –Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
- 1967 –Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- 1969 –Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- 1983 –Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born American actor
Who died on August 13?
- 1686 –Louis Maimbourg, French historian (b. 1610)
- 1865 –Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)
- 1937 –Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (birth year unknown)
- 1958 –Otto Witte, German acrobat and claimant to the Albanian throne (b. 1868)
- 1986 –Way Bandy, American make-up artist (b. 1941)
- 1989 –Larkin Smith, American politician (b. 1944)
- 1995 –Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (b. 1926)
- 1996 –David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
- 2006 –Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
- 2007 –Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
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