About August 13
August 13, 2024 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.
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Leo is the sun 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.
What Happened On August 13
- 3114 BC –According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.
- 1516 –The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognises Charles’s claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises Francis’s claim to Milan.
- 1553 –Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
- 1704 –War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
- 1814 –The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
- 1831 –Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
- 1868 –A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
- 1906 –The 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.
- 1918 –Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
- 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: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1937 –The Battle of Shanghai begins.
- 1942 –Major 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.
- 1954 –Radio Pakistan broadcasts the “Qaumī Tarāna”, the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
- 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.
- 1969 –The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 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.
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