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What Happened on August 13th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.
2015	At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
2008	Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
2004	One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
1990	A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
1978	One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
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.
1973	Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing 85.
1969	The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City.[7] That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1968	Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1967	Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
1964	Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1961	Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
1960	The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1954	Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1944	World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.
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.
1937	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1920	Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1918	Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918	Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1913	First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
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. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
1905	Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
1900	The steamer Deutschland of Hamburg America Lines set a new record for the eastward passage when it docked on Plymouth, England, five days, 11 hours and 45 minutes after sailing from New York, breaking by three hours, six minutes its previous mark in its maiden voyage in July.
1898	Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898	Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1889	William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
1868	The 8.5–9.0 Mw  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
1814	The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Netherlands, is signed in London, England.
1806	Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle ends two days later with a Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1792	King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1779	American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1704	War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1650	Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1645	Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro.
1624	The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
1553	Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1536	Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Tenbun (天文) era).
1532	Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1521	After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1516	The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1099	Raniero is elected as Pope Paschal II, who would become deeply entangled in the Investiture Controversy.
900	Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
582	Maurice becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
554	Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
523	John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
29	Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.

Famous People Born on August 13

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Year	Name
1908	Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot (d. 1998)
1814	Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (d. 1874)
1818	Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist (d. 1893)
1967	Digna Ketelaar, Dutch tennis player
1949	Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker
1929	Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (d. 2016)
1904	Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (d. 1999)
1962	John Slattery, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1888	John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television (d. 1946)
1977	Michael Klim, Polish-Australian swimmer

Famous People Deaths On August 13

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Date	Name
2012	Hugo Adam Bedau, American philosopher and academic (b. 1926)
696	Takechi, Japanese prince
1311	Pietro Gradenigo, doge of Venice
1954	Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
2009	Lavelle Felton, American basketball player (b. 1980)
1979	Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1766	Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
2018	Jim Neidhart, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1686	Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
1865	Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)