Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 13

This is a list of selected August 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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• Map of Tenochtitlan
  Map of Tenochtitlan
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  Part of the Battle of Blenheim tapestry at Blenheim Palace
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  The Berlin Wall
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  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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  Soldier of the Coldstream Guards
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  Cardinal Armand de Richelieu
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  Opha May Johnson
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  Construction sheet of the flag of Japan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in the Central African Republic (1960)	section needs updating
554 – As a reward for more than 60 years of service to the Byzantine Empire, Emperor Justinian I granted Liberius extensive estates in Italy.	accuracy disputed
1624 – Cardinal Richelieu became the chief minister to King Louis XIII, and transformed France's feudal political structure into one with a powerful central government.	refimprove section
1779 – American Revolutionary War: Off the coast of Maine, the United States suffered its worst naval defeat until 1941.	[citation needed] x6
1913 – English inventor Harry Brearley first developed stainless steel using an electric furnace.	Brearly: refimprove section; Stainless steel: refimprove, date not in article
1937 – The Battle of Shanghai began, eventually becoming one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.	unreferenced sections
1940 – An RAAF bomber crashed outside Canberra, Australia, killing three cabinet ministers, the head of the Australian Army, and six others.	unreferenced sections
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project.	tags
1954 – The "Qaumi Taranah", the Pakistani national anthem, was first broadcast on Radio Pakistan.	refimprove section
1961 – Construction began on the Berlin Wall, a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany.	short, large % unsourced
1968 – Greek politician Alexandros Panagoulis attempted to assassinate Georgios Papadopoulos, the dictator of the Greek junta.	needs more footnotes
1977 – Members of the British far-right National Front clashed with anti-racist and anti-fascist demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.	refimprove
1996 – Marc Dutroux was arrested for the kidnapping of 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, revealing a number of other victims and one of Belgium's biggest child molestation cases.	multiple issues
2004 – The Maldivian National Security Service cracked down on a peaceful protest in Malé, causing President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to declare a state of emergency.	refimprove, unreferenced section
Alfred Hitchcock|b|1899|	[citation needed] x2, [failed verification] x3, [page needed] x2, [verification needed] x2
José Ramón Guizado|b|1899|	stubby, DoB not mentioned nor sourced in main prose
Gay Uncles Day (2023)	Stub

Eligible

• 582 – Maurice was crowned Byzantine emperor to succeed Tiberius II Constantine.
• 1650 – General George Monck founded the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards (soldier pictured), the oldest regular regiment of the British Army in continuous active service.
• 1762 – Anglo-Spanish War: The United Kingdom captured Havana after a five-week siege, holding it until the Treaty of Paris the following year.
• 1868 – A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 casualties; the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
• 1876 – The first Bayreuth Festival, created by Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima to showcase his stage works, was opened with Das Rheingold.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: After a mock battle for Manila, the Spanish commander surrendered to the United States to keep the city out of the Philippine Revolutionary Army's hands.
• 1906 – Members of the U.S. Army's all-black 25th Infantry Regiment were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence.
• 1918 – Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
• 2010 – After being boarded by Canadian authorities, MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed into detention.
• Born/died: | Maximus the Confessor|d|662| al-Muktafi|d|908| Nawrūz|d|1297| Gerard David|d|1523| George Grove|b|1820| Jules Massenet|d|1912| Frederick Sanger |b|1918| Marjorie Paxson|b|1923| Bobby Clarke|b|1949| Alan Shearer |b|1970| Ida McNeil|d|1974| Yana Kasova|b|1981| Tigran Petrosian|d|1984| Tim Richmond|d|1989|

Notes

• Einstein–Szilárd letter appears on August 2 and Smyth Report appears on August 12, so Manhattan Project should not appear in the same year
• 2007 Peru earthquake appears on August 15, so 1868 earthquake should not appear in the same year.

August 13

Damage caused by Hurricane Charley

• 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim.
• 1724 – Bach led the Thomanerchor in Leipzig in the first performance of the chorale cantata, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101.
• 1999 – The Act on National Flag and Anthem was adopted, formally establishing the Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" as the Japanese national flag and anthem, respectively.
• 2004 – Merely 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie struck the U.S. state of Florida, Hurricane Charley inflicted further damage to the region (example pictured).

• Jules Massenet (d. 1912)
• Bobby Clarke (b. 1949)
• Ida McNeil (d. 1974)
• Tigran Petrosian (d. 1984)

More anniversaries:

• August 12
• August 13
• August 14