Notable Historical Events on August 13th
August 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3114 |
According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Mayan calendar |
BC AD | |
523 |
St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1099 |
Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II |
1326 |
Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult and subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria, later known as the Malandanti. |
1415 |
King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River |
1516 |
The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan. |
1521 |
Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire |
1536 |
Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536). |
1553 |
Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic. |
1578 |
Duke Frans of Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands |
1608 |
John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication |
1624 |
Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII |
1630 |
Ferdinand II dismisses supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein |
1642 |
Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap |
1645 |
Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro |
1651 |
Litchfield, CT, founded |
1695 |
-15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels |
1696 |
State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor |
1704 |
French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
1732 |
Voltaire's "Zaire" premieres in Paris |
1740 |
Hunger strike in Rotterdam |
1784 |
British parliament accepts India Act |
1788 |
Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 |
1792 |
Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette |
1799 |
British fleet under Lord Seymour overthrows Suriname |
1814 |
Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch |
1814 |
Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves |
1852 |
Steamer "Atlantic" crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit collided with a fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard |
1864 |
Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA |
1868 |
Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) |
1876 |
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle |
1881 |
Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch |
1886 |
John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia |
1889 |
William Gray patents coin-operated telephone |
1892 |
US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore |
1898 |
US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war |
1902 |
England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory |
1906 |
Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas |
1906 |
Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning |
1907 |
1st taxicab (NYC) |
1908 |
Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team |
1908 |
Kind Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; the King tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policies |
1910 |
Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch |
1913 |
Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania. |
1913 |
Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England |
1914 |
-14] German army occupies forts at Liege |
1914 |
Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota |
1914 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1917 |
Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves |
1918 |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. |
1919 |
British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India; killing 350 |
1919 |
Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) |
1920 |
24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio |
1921 |
Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy" premieres in NYC |
1923 |
Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of German coalition government |
1923 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
1923 |
US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day |
1928 |
Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins |
1931 |
Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 |
1932 |
Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany |
1932 |
Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying |
1933 |
16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee |
1933 |
Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist |
1935 |
Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
1937 |
Japanese attack at the beinnging of the Battle of Shanghai during Second Sino-Japanese War. Involves nearly 1 million troops |
1939 |
Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's |
1939 |
Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' |
1940 |
Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain) |
1941 |
Red army evacuates Smolensk |
1943 |
Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
1944 |
British 8th Army occupies Florence |
1944 |
Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough |
1944 |
Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio |
1946 |
Britain diverts illegal immigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus |
1948 |
Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game |
1950 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
1950 |
US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai |
1951 |
Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract |
1953 |
4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
1953 |
US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
1953 |
US General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of staff |
1954 |
21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470) |
1955 |
Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield |
1956 |
WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 |
1959 |
US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) |
1960 |
Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France |
1960 |
USSR withdraws advisors from China |
1960 |
The first two-way conversation via satellite is undertaken using Echo 1 |
1961 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany |
1961 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
1962 |
Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously |
1963 |
US Customs agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
1963 |
Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382 |
1964 |
1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
1967 |
WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
1969 |
Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
1970 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1971 |
Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car" |
1972 |
Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last episode of "Bonanza" |
1972 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
1975 |
Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket Oval |
1975 |
Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed |
1976 |
South Africa pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia |
1977 |
1st test glide of space shuttle |
1977 |
Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband |
1978 |
Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed |
1978 |
Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
1978 |
Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted & thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0 |
1979 |
Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits |
1980 |
Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted |
1980 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR |
1981 |
Last broadcast of "The Waltons" on CBS-TV |
1981 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96) |
1984 |
Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty |
1985 |
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts |
1986 |
KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN) |
1987 |
Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning |
1987 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump |
1988 |
Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games |
1988 |
Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit opens |
1988 |
US beats Jamacia 5-1 in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1988 |
Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min |
1989 |
2 hot-air balloons crash at Alice Springs, Australia, 13 killed |
1989 |
71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill |
1989 |
US space shuttle STS-28 lands |
1991 |
Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) |
1991 |
Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia versus England at Old Trafford |
1991 |
US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers |
1993 |
Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24 |
1993 |
Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed |
1993 |
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
1994 |
Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed |
1995 |
77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif |
1995 |
Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship |
1996 |
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 |
1997 |
Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees |
1997 |
SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels |
1997 |
South Park's first episode is aired. |
2004 |
156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. |
2004 |
Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé. |
2004 |
Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area. |
2008 |
The Baltic state slides into recession with a 0.9% fall in second-quarter GDP after a drop of 0.5% in the first quarter; it falls deeper into recession in the third quarter when the economy contracted 3.3% |
2012 |
Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a drugs test |
2016 |
US declares a Zika public health emergency in Puerto Rico |
2016 |
Katie Ledecky Swims Into History With 4th Olympic Gold |
2017 |
Three dead, dozens injured after clashes at Virginia rally |
2017 |
Virginia Gov. McAuliffe to white nationalists: 'No place for you in America' |
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