About August 13
August 13, 2021 is the 225th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 172 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
- 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.
- 1913 –Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
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