The Ultimate August 13 Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference

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)