Events
of the day
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
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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