Major Events
- 1521 Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan, bringing the Aztec Empire to an end
- 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyoto’s Enryaku-ji Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536)
- 1642 Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Mars’s southern polar cap
- 1788 Prussia joins the Anglo-Dutch alliance to form the Triple Alliance to prevent the spread of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
- 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces start the Battle of Shanghai, a three-month conflict involving over one million troops
- 1942 The Manhattan Project commences under the direction of US General Leslie Groves with the aim of developing an atomic bomb
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Aug 13 in Music
- 2013 “Crash My Party,” the fourth studio album by Luke Bryan, is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2014)
Aug 13 in Sport
- 2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins three gold medals, all in world record time, in one day at the Beijing Olympics: 200 m IM (1:54.23), 200 m butterfly (1:52.03), and 4x200m freestyle relay (6:58.56)
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Fun Fact About August 13
Otto Witte, German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania
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