See soorce fer 13 August

{{Days in August}}

The '''13t o August''' is the 225t day o the year (226t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 140 days bidin.

== Events ==
[[File:Berlin Wall 1961-11-20.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[1961]]: The [[Berlin Waw]] bein biggit]]
[[File:Apollo 11 ticker tape parade 1.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[1969]]: Ticker-tape parade for [[Apollo 11]] astronauts]]
[[File:Schlottwitz Hochwasser 113-1368 IMG.JPG|thumb|150px|right|[[2002]]: Floods in [[Germany]]]]
* [[1762]] - Seven Years' War: Breetish forces take [[Havana]] in the then Spainyie colony o [[Cuba]].
* [[1792]] - [[Louis XVI o Fraunce]] is formally arrestit.
* [[1809]] - [[Tyrol]]ean forces unner [[Andreas Hofer]] defeat the French in the thrid Battle o Bergisel.
* [[1826]] - Scot [[Alexander Gordon Laing]] becomes the first-kent [[Europe]]an tae enter the ceety o [[Timbuktu]] in present-day [[Mali]].
* [[1868]] - A [[yirdquauk]] in [[Arica]], [[Peru]] (nou in [[Chile]]) causes 25,000 casualties.
* [[1905]] - [[Norawa]] haulds a referendum wi nearly unanimous support for unthirldom frae the union wi [[Swaden]].
* [[1923]] - [[Gustav Stresemann]] forms the first grand coalition in [[Germany]]. 
* [[1937]] - [[Japan]]ese forces attack [[Shanghai]].
* [[1942]] - [[Disney]] film [[Bambi]] is released.
* [[1948]] - [[Austrick]] jyns [[UNESCO]].
* [[1960]] - The [[Central African Republic]] gains unthirldom frae [[Fraunce]].
* [[1961]] - The [[Berlin Waw]] is biggit.
* [[1969]] - [[Neil Armstrong]], [[Buzz Aldrin]] an [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] tak pairt in a ticker-tape parade in [[New York Ceety]] tae celebrate their landin on [[the Muin]]
* [[1984]] - The new [[airport]] in [[Jakarta]] is opened.
* [[1999]] - In [[Japan]], the [[Banner o Japan|risin Sun banner]] becomes the offeecial banner.
* [[2002]] - The German states o [[Saxony]] an [[Saxony-Anhalt]] are hit bi their worst floods in a century.
* [[2004]] - Stairt o the [[2004 Simmer Olympics]] in [[Athens]].
* [[2008]] - American soummer [[Michael Phelps]] beats the Olympic medal record.
* [[2011]] - Commemorations tak place tae mairk 50 year syne the biggin o the [[Berlin Waw]].
* [[2015]] - A truck bombin in [[Baghdad]] kills 76 fowk.
* [[2020]] - [[Israel]] an the [[Unitit Arab Emirates]] normalise thair diplomatic relations.

== Births ==
[[File:John Logie Baird in 1917.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[John Logie Baird]]]]
[[File:Alfred Hitchcock NYWTS.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]]]
*[[1752]] - [[Maria Carolina o Austrick]] (d. [[1814]])
*[[1783]] - [[John Crawfurd]], Scots medicinar, colonial admeenistrator, diplomat an author (d. [[1863]])
*[[1784]] - [[Thomas Dick Lauder]], Scots author (d. [[1848]])
*[[1792]] - [[Adelaide o Saxe-Meiningen]], German-born Queen Consort o the [[Unitit Kinrick]] (d. [[1849]])
*[[1860]] - [[Annie Oakley]], American sharp shooter (d. [[1926]])
*[[1867]] - [[William Craigie]], Scots philologist an lexicografer (d. [[1957]])
*[[1871]] - [[Karl Liebknecht]], German poleetical activist (d. [[1919]])
*[[1888]] - [[John Logie Baird]], Scots inventor (d. [[1946]])
*[[1899]] - [[Soledad Mexia]], Mexican-American supercentenarian (d. [[2013]])
*[[1899]] - [[Alfred Hitchcock]], Inglis film director an producer (d. [[1980]])
*[[1912]] - [[Salvador Luria]], Italian-American microbiologist (d. [[1991]])
*[[1913]] - [[Makarios III]], Airchbeeshop an 1st [[Preses]] o [[Cyprus]] (d. [[1977]])
*[[1918]] - [[Frederick Sanger]], Inglis biochemist (d. [[2013]])
*[[1926]] - [[Fidel Castro]], [[Preses]] o [[Cuba]] (d. [[2016]])
*[[1946]] - [[Janet Yellen]], American economist
*[[1949]] - [[Philippe Petit]], French heich-wire airtist
*[[1960]] - [[Phil Taylor]], Inglis dairts player
*[[1961]] - [[Bobby Williamson]], Scots fitbawer an manager
*[[1962]] - [[Manuel Valls]], umwhile [[Prime meenister]] o [[Fraunce]]
*[[1970]] - [[Alan Shearer]], Inglis fitbawer
*[[1982]] - [[Sarah Sanders]], umwhile [[White House Press Secretar]]
*[[1984]] - [[Colin Fleming]], Scots tennis player
*[[1990]] - [[Elise Christie]], Scots short-track speed-skeitcher

== Daiths ==
*[[1801]] - [[George Gordon, 3rd Yerl o Aiberdeen]], Scots peer (b. [[1722]])
*[[1863]] - [[Eugène Delacroix]], French penter (b. [[1798]])
*[[1865]] - [[Ignaz Semmelweis]], Hungarian medicinar (b. [[1818]])
*[[1910]] - [[Florence Nightingale]], Inglis nurse (b. [[1820]])
*[[1917]] - [[Eduard Buchner]], German chemist (b. [[1860]])
*[[1946]] - [[H. G. Wells]], Inglis writer (b. [[1860]])
*[[1984]] - [[Tigran Petrosian]], Armenie chess player (b. [[1929]])
*[[2004]] - [[Julia Child]], American chef, author an telly personality (b. [[1912]])
*[[2009]] - [[Les Paul]], American muisicker (b. [[1915]])

== Halidays ==
[[File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg|thumb|140px|right|Banner o the [[Central African Republic]]]]
* Independence Day ([[Central African Republic]])
* Internaitional Lefthanders Day
* Women's Day ([[Tunisie]])

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