August 13

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

Events

• 1521 - Tenochtitlan falls to Hernan Fernando Cortes
• 1704 - Battle of Blenheim
• 1940 - The Battle of Britain begins
• 1960 - Central African Republic declares independence from France
• 1960 - Chad declares independence from France
• 1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.

Births

• 1422 - William Caxton, printer
• 1818 - Lucy Stone, women's rights activist
• 1860 - Annie Oakley[?], sharpshooter (+ 1926)
• 1888 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (+ 1946)
• 1895 - Bert Lahr[?], actor (+ 1967)
• 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (+ 1980)
• 1904 - Charles (Buddy) Rogers[?], actor (+ 1999
• 1912 - Ben Hogan, golf champion
• 1919 - George Shearing[?], musician
• 1920 - Neville Brand, actor (+ 1992)
• 1926 - Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician
• 1930 - Don Ho[?], musician
• 1933 - Doctor Jocelyn Elders[?], United States Surgeon General
• 1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant[?], member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1948 - Kathleen Battle[?], opera singer
• 1949 - Bobby Clarke[?], ice hockey star
• 1951 - Dan Fogelberg[?], singer
• 1952 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
• 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor
• 1970 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player.

Deaths

• 1863 - Eugene Delacroix, painter
• 1946 - H. G. Wells, writer
• 1964 - Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain.
• 1995 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Fame member
• 1996 - David Tudor, pianist and composer

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Vertumnalias[?] in honor of Vertumnus

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