13 August

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The August 13 is the 225th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 226th in leap years ), thus remain 140 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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22nd 23 24 25th 26 27 28
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events

Politics and world events

1806: The Cape Colony
Andreas Hofer
1849: Surrender of the Hungarian army
1937: House fighting in Shanghai
1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall
1999: The Japanese flag
  • 1999: The sun disk flag, in use since 1868 , is formally introduced as the national flag of Japan .

business

science and technology
1939: Vickers Warwick

Culture

1876: The Bayreuth Festival Theater

company

religion

Disasters
2002: Schlottwitz, flood of the Müglitz
  • 2002: In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt the "flood of the century " inundates large areas.
  • 2004: Hurricane Charley devastates Florida. With total damage of 14 billion US dollars, it will be one of the most damaging hurricanes in the United States.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

1878: Fishmarket in the Luray Caverns
  • 1878: The Luray Caverns are discovered by chance in northwest Virginia . The three explorers initially hide the discovery of the cave system and acquire the land cheaply in an ongoing foreclosure auction. Your purchase will later be canceled after the true value is discovered.

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Johann Andreas Quenstedt (* 1617)

  • Erasmus Bartholin (* 1625)

  • Balthasar Permoser (* 1651)

  • Heinrich von Brühl (* 1700)

18th century

  • Louis-François de Bourbon (* 1717)

  • Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (* 1743)

  • Maria Karolina of Austria (* 1752)

  • James Gillray (* 1757)

  • Théroigne de Méricourt (* 1762)

  • Johann Georg Lahner (* 1772)

  • Betty Gleim (* 1781)

  • Adelheid of Saxe-Meiningen (* 1792)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Nikolaus Lenau (* 1802)

  • Anders Jonas Ångström (* 1814)

  • Lucy Stone (* 1818)

  • George Gabriel Stokes (* 1819)

  • Francisco Gomes de Amorim (* 1827)

  • Salomon Jadassohn (* 1831)

  • Nikolai of Japan (* 1836)

  • Albert Sorel (* 1842)

1851-1875

  • Annie Oakley (* 1860)

  • Camillo Olivetti (* 1868)

  • Karl Liebknecht (* 1871)

  • Richard Martin Willstätter (* 1872)

1876-1900

  • John Logie Baird (* 1888)

  • Li Zongren (* 1890)

  • Assar Gabrielsson (* 1891)

  • Alfred Hitchcock (* 1899)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach (* 1907)

  • Johannes Prassek (* 1911)

  • Makarios III. (* 1913)

  • Frederick Sanger (born 1918)

1926-1950

  • Fidel Castro (* 1926)

  • Dietrich Falke (* 1927)

  • Hansjürgen Müller-Beck (* 1927)

  • Dagmar von Kurmin (* 1933)

  • Henning Voscherau (* 1941)

  • Howard Marks (* 1945)

  • Stefan Melak (* 1946)

1951-1975

  • Dan Fogelberg (* 1951)

  • Carla Bodendorf (* 1953)

  • Phil Taylor (* 1960)

  • Ian Haugland (born 1964)

  • Midori Itō (* 1969)

  • Moritz Bleibtreu (* 1971)

  • Heike Makatsch (* 1971)

  • Brittany Andrews (* 1973)

1976-2000

  • Amiaz Habtu (* 1976)

  • Moritz A. Sachs (* 1978)

  • Gil Ofarim (* 1982)

  • Alexandra Ndolo (* 1986)

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Maximus Confessor († 662)

  • Gertrud von Altenberg († 1297)

  • Filippo Maria Visconti († 1447)

  • Ludwig IV of the Palatinate († 1449)

16th to 18th century

  • Giovanni da Bologna († 1608)

  • Maria of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel († 1626)

  • Marco d'Aviano († 1699)

  • Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha († 1758)

19th century

  • Eugène Delacroix († 1863)

  • Ignaz Semmelweis († 1865)

  • John Everett Millais († 1896)

  • Collis P. Huntington († 1900)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Florence Nightingale († 1910)

  • Jules Massenet († 1912)

  • August Bebel († 1913)

  • Julius Carl Raschdorff († 1914)

1926-1950

  • Hasan Bej Prishtina († 1933)

  • Mary Hunter Austin († 1934)

  • Václav Klement († 1938)

  • HG Wells († 1946)

1951-1975

  • Wilhelm Kreis († 1955)

  • Zeth Höglund († 1956)

  • Carl Størmer († 1957)

  • Hans von Benda († 1972)

1976-2000

  • Joe Tex († 1982)

  • John Willard Marriott († 1985)

  • António de Spínola († 1996)

  • Ignatz Bubis († 1999)

21st century

  • David Lange († 2005)

  • Lothar Bisky († 2013)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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