August 13th

See also: Category: Holidays August 13

International

• International left-handed day .

National

•   Tunisia - Women's Day .
•   Japan is the beginning of Obon , the feast of remembrance of the dead (August 13-15).

  Religious

  Orthodoxy ^{[2] [3]}

• the celebration of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord ;
• memory of the righteous Evdokim Kappadokiyanina (IX century);
• the memory of the martyr Julitta of Caesarea (Cappadocia) (304-305);
• memory of the Martyr Dionysius of Vatopediysky (1822);
• memory of St. Herman, Bishop of Osseria (448);
• memory of the Holy Martyr Benjamin (Kazan) , Metropolitan of Petrograd, and with him the Rev. Martyr Sergius (Shein) , Archimandrite and Martyrs Yuri Novitsky and John Kovsharov (1922);
• memory of the martyr Maxim Rumyantsev (1928);
• memory of the holy martyr Vladimir Kholodkovsky, presbyter (1937);
• the memory of the holy martyr John Rumyantsev, the holy confessor Konstantin Razumov, the elders, the martyr Anna Serova and the confessor Elizabeth Rumyantseva (after 1937).

Name Day

Catholic

• Hippolytus , Pontian ^[4] .

Orthodox

Date is given in a new style ^[5] :

Men's

• Anthony ( Anton ) - martyr Anthony.
• Arseny - Arseny, Bishop of Nicotsminda.
• Vasily - Confessor Vasily (Preobrazhensky) .
• Benjamin - Holy Martyr Benjamin (Kazan) .
• Vladimir - Hieromartyr Vladimir (Kholodkovsky) .
• Gelasius (Galasius) - the martyr Gelasius.
• George ( Egor , Egorius ) - the martyr George.
• Dionysius - Rev. Martyr Dionysius of Vatopedi .
• Evdokim (Avdokim) - the righteous Evdokim Cappadocian .
• John ( Ivan ) - Hieromartyr John (Rumyantsev) , John, Bulgarian Exarch, Martyr Kovsharov, Ivan Mikhailovich .
• Joseph ( Joseph , Osip, Esip ) - Joseph of Arimathea (secret student of Christ).
• Konstantin - Confessor Konstantin (Razumov) .
• Maxim - the martyr Rumyantsev, Maxim Ivanovich .
• Nicholas - Hieromartyr Nicholas (Pravdolyubov) .
• Sergius ( Sergey ) - Hieromartyr Sergius (Shein) .
• Stefan ( Stepan ) - Rev. Stefan, prince.
• Yuri - Martyr Novitsky, Yuri Petrovich .

Women

• Anna - Martyr Serova, Anna Vasilievna .
• Elizaveta ( Elizabeth ) - confessor of Rumyantsev, Elizaveta Grigoryevna .
• Julitta ( Julitta Julitta ) - the martyr Julitta of Caesarea (Cappadocia).

See also Category: August 13 events

Until the 20th century.

• 1099 - Paschal II was elected pope .
• 1521 - Hernan Cortes captured the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan (now the city of Mexico City ).
• 1672 - Christian Huygens discovered an ice cap at the South Pole of Mars .
• 1727 - Revival Day of the Fraternal Unity ( Unitas Fratrum ). The formal beginning of the Moravian Church as an independent movement of Czech brothers .
• 1762 - during the Anglo-Spanish War (1761-1763), the siege of Havana (1762) ended with the surrender of the city.
• 1876 - the opening in Bayreuth of a specially constructed musical theater for the performance of works by Richard Wagner . On this and the next few days the first performance of the complete opera cycle “The Ring of the Nibelung” took place.
• 1899 - American inventor William Gray patented a pay phone .

XX century

• 1903 - Turkish forces crushed the Ilindensky uprising and destroyed the Krushev Republic .
• 1905 - Norway held a referendum on the termination of the union with Sweden .
• 1907 - the first taxi was launched in New York .
• 1912 - French physician G. Odin announced that he was the first in the world to isolate a cancer virus .
• 1913 - the first stainless steel is smelted in Sheffield .
• 1914 - military censorship was introduced in Russia .
• 1920 - the beginning of the battle of the Red Army for Warsaw, also known as the “ Miracle on the Vistula ”
• 1932 - in Rome, Marconi conducted the first test of shortwave radio.
• 1940 - All Masonic lodges are banned in Vichy France .
• 1941 - Romanian-German troops reached the Black Sea east of Odessa and completely blocked Odessa from land.
• 1942 - premiere in New York of Walt Disney 's animated feature film " Bambi ."
• 1945 - The World Zionist Congress demanded that a million Jews be allowed to enter Palestine .
• 1946
  • The British authorities have begun the deportation of illegal Jewish immigrants from Palestine to Cyprus .
  • In the United States, a federal commission has been established to study the living conditions of Indians.
• 1952 - Germany and Japan became part of the International Monetary Fund .
• 1960 - The Central African Republic declared independence from France .
• 1961 - The German Democratic Republic closed the border between West and East Berlin .
• 1966 - Tunics prohibited miniskirts .
• 1990 - USSR President M. S. Gorbachev signed a decree "On the restoration of the rights of all victims of political repression of the 20-50s."
• 1997 - The government of Ontario ( Canada ) announced a plan to close seven nuclear power plants near the US border.
• 2000 - in Moscow, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior , the anniversary bishops' council of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) was opened.

21st Century

• 2002 - the marriage of the famous actor and daughter of the “Rock and Roll King” took place on one of the Hawaiian islands - Nicholas Cage and Lisa Maria Presley entered into a legal marriage.
• 2007 - the Nevsky Express train crashed on a Moscow-St. Petersburg train in the Malaya Vishera area due to a blast on the tracks of an improvised explosive device.

See also: Category: Born on August 13

Until the 19th century

• 1311 - Alfonso XI the Just (d. 1350 ), king of Leon and Castile .
• 1655 - Johann Christoph Denner (d. 1707 ), German music master, inventor of the clarinet .
• 1700 - Heinrich von Bruhl (d. 1763 ), First Minister of the Elector of Saxony and Poland, King Augustus III .
• 1752 - Maria Carolina (d. 1814 ), Queen of the Two Sicilies , sister of Marie Antoinette .

XIX century

• 1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky (d. 1869 ), Russian writer, philosopher, prince, founder of Russian musicology.
• 1814 - Anders Jonas Angstrom (d. 1874 ), Swedish physicist and astronomer, founder of spectroscopy.
• 1819 - George Stokes (d. 1903 ), English mathematician and physicist.
• 1820 - Joseph Albert Alberdingk Tim (d. 1889 ), Dutch writer, publisher and art critic.
• 1827 - Francisco Gomez de Amorim (d. 1891 ), Portuguese writer.
• 1829 - Ivan Sechenov (d. 1905 ), Russian physiologist, founder of the physiology of labor.
• 1836 - Nikolai Kasatkin (d. 1912 ), missionary, first archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Japan .
• 1844 - Johann Friedrich Mischer (d. 1895 ), a Swiss scientist who discovered nucleic acids - DNA and RNA .
• 1860 - Annie Oakley (d. 1926 ), American circus artist, sniper.
• 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli (d. 1945 ), Italian industrialist, who founded the company Fiat in 1899 .
• 1871 - Karl Liebknecht (assassinated in 1919 ), one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany .
• 1872 - Richard Willstatter (d. 1942 ), German chemist, Nobel laureate (1915).
• 1873 - Christian Rakovsky (executed in 1941 ), Soviet political and statesman, diplomat.
• 1888 - John Loughy Byrd (d. 1946 ), a Scottish engineer, the first to carry out the television transmission of moving objects.
• 1897 - Detlev Wolf Bronk (d. 1975 ), American physiologist, father of biophysics.
• 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock (d. 1980 ), Anglo-American director, winner of the Oscar .

XX century

• 1901 - Boris Chirkov (d. 1982 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1902 - Felix Wankel (d. 1988 ), German engineer, one of the inventors of the rotary piston engine.
• 1907 - Tamara Makarova (d. 1997 ), theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1907 - Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (d. 1967 ), the last representative of the cannon kings dynasty.
• 1912 - Salvador Eduard Luria (d. 1991 ), Italian-American biologist, Nobel laureate (1969).
• 1918 - Frederick Senger (d. 2013 ), English biochemist, twice Nobel laureate (1958, 1980).
• 1920 - Vasily Andrianov (d. 1999 ), Soviet pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1926 - Fidel Castro (d. 2016 ), Cuban revolutionary and politician.
• 1941 - Elmira Rahimova , Azerbaijani singer, People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
• 1946 - Tatyana Bedova , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
• 1949 - Irina Dolganova , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
• 1959 - Evgeny Kolchev , a modern Belarusian sculptor and photographer.
• 1962 - Andrei Sokolov , theater and film actor, theater director, people's artist of Russia.
• 1964 - Alexander Nikonov , Russian journalist, publicist and writer.
• 1967 - Anna Terekhova , theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 1968 - Andrei Fedortsov , theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 1970
  • Ilya Shakunov , Russian film and theater actor.
  • Alan Shearer , English footballer, top scorer in the history of the English Premier League.
• 1971
  • Vladimir Vdovichenkov , actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
  • Moritz Bleibtroy , German actor.
• 1972 - Yuri Baturin , Russian film and theater actor.
• 1975 - Casey Affleck , American theater, film and television actor, Academy Award winner.
• 1979 - Ekaterina Buzhinsky , Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine.
• 1980 - Stas Piekha , Russian singer.
• 1982 - Sebastian Stan , American actor of Romanian descent.
• 1984
  • Alyona Bondarenko , Ukrainian tennis player.
  • James Morrison , British songwriter and guitarist.
• 1992 - Lucas Moura , Brazilian footballer.

See also: Category: August 13 dead

• 1134 - Irina (wife of John II Comnenus) ( b.c. 1088 ), wife of the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus , Orthodox saint.
• 1775 - Mikhail Czartoryski (b. 1696 ), prince, statesman of the Commonwealth .
• 1799 - Vasily Bazhenov (b. 1738 ), architect, one of the founders of Russian classicism.
• 1826 - Rene Laanneque (b. 1781 ), French doctor and anatomist, one of the founders of the clinical anatomical method in medicine, inventor of the stethoscope .
• 1863 - Eugene Delacroix (b. 1798 ), French artist.
• 1865 - Ignaz Philippe Semmelweis (b. 1818 ), Hungarian obstetrician, pioneer of antiseptics .
• 1881 - Francesco Selmi (b. 1817 ), Italian chemist, founder of colloidal chemistry.
• 1896 - John Everett Millet (b. 1829 ), English painter.
• 1900 - Vladimir Solovyov (b. 1853 ), Russian philosopher, poet, publicist, literary critic.
• 1910 - Florence Nightingale (b. 1820 ), English nurse, organizer and leader of a nurse unit during the Crimean War (1853-1856).
• 1912 - Jules Massenet (b. 1842 ), French composer, professor at the Paris Conservatory.
• 1913 - August Bebel (b. 1840 ), German Marxist , one of the founders and leaders of the SPD and the Second International .
• 1917 - Eduard Buchner (b. 1860 ), German chemist.
• 1946 - Herbert Wells (b. 1866 ), English science fiction writer.
• 1956 - Yakub Kolas (b. 1882 ), Belarusian writer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR.
• 1969 - Adeline Adalis (b. 1900 ), Russian Soviet poetess, writer, translator.
• 1984
  • Tigran Petrosyan (b. 1929 ), 9th world chess champion.
  • Nina Khrushchev (born 1900 ), the second wife of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU N.S. Khrushchev .
• 1991 - Pavel Morozenko (born 1939 ), Soviet theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR im. K. Stanislavsky.
• 1998 - Julien Green (b. 1900 ), French writer, novelist and playwright of American descent.
• 2016 - Kenny Baker (b. 1934 ), an English film actor.

• The plot before the Assumption post; for this purpose, on this day they ate fresh, steamed and sun-dried turnips, prepared pies with turnips and turnip porridge, drank turnded kvass ^[6] .