August 13

August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining.

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1 Events

Events

1099 - Paschal II elected Pope.
1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
1326 - Aradia de Toscano is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti .
1415 - Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux , France with 8000 men.

1516 - Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés
1553 - Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.

1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, managed to get himself crowned King of Albania.
1913 - invention 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.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.
1942 - Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premiers.
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.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1993 - Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
1997 - The popular, controversial animated series South Park debuts on Comedy Central.

2004 - The 28th Summer Olympics opens in Athens, Greece (August 29).
2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes the Fort Myers area in Florida.

1311 - Alfonso XI of Castile, king of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1313 - Aradia de Toscano, insurrectionist, teacher, witch, purported incarnation of the goddess Aradia

1422 - William Caxton, printer
1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698)
1666 - William Wotton, Fellow of the Royal Society
1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom
1818 - Lucy Stone, pioneering women's rights activist
1820 - Sir George Grove, author, Dictionary of Music and Musicians (d. 1900)
1823 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (d. 1910)
1851 - Felix Adler, educator, founder of the Ethical Movement (d. 1933)
1860 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter (d. 1926)
1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, industrialist (d. 1945)
1888 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (d. 1946)
1895 - Bert Lahr, actor (d. 1967)
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (d. 1980)