About August 13
August 13, 2023 is the 225th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 181 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 13
- 1521 –Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- 1536 –Buddhist monks from Kyōto’s Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
- 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.
- 1792 –King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
- 1814 –The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
- 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.
- 1913 –First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1913 –Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
- 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.
- 1960 –The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
- 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.
- 1979 –The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
- 2004 –Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
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