August
13
Independence
Day
Central African Republic : August 13 1960
August
13 : International Left Hander’s Day
August 13th every year is celebrated as the world’s
International Left Hander’s Day. Here are the famous
personalities who are left hander’s. The top of
the list is Barack Obama
Events
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.
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.
1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian revolution
begins. The battle will end two days later, with
a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
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.
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.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the
first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
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 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned
King of Albania.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel
by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine
Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the
first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established
as a public company in Germany.
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.
1965 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for
the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people
people executed in the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred
at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy
the Georgian city of Gori.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Cassian of Imola
Hippolytus of Rome
Maximus the Confessor
Pope Pontian
Radegunde
August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Festival of Aventine Diana (Roman Empire)
Hercules Victori (Roman Empire)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of
Central African Republic from France in 1960.
International Lefthanders Day (International)
Lao Issara, Day of the Free Laos. (Laos)
The first day of Gujo Odori (Gujō)
Women's Day, commemorates the enaction of Tunisian
Code of Personal Status in 1956. (Tunisia)
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