Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 13

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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Map of Tenochtitlan

Map of Tenochtitlan
Part of the Battle of Blenheim tapestry at Blenheim Palace
The Berlin Wall
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Damage caused by Hurricane Charley
Cardinal Armand de Richelieu
Coldstream Guard on sentry duty
Construction sheet of the flag of Japan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim.	TFA for 2021
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
1954 – The "Qaumi Taranah", the Pakistani national anthem, was first broadcast on Radio Pakistan.	refimprove section
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
Alan Shearer \|b\|1970	too many {CN} tags (16)

Eligible

1650 – General George Monck founded the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment of the British Army in continuous active service.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: Off the coast of Maine, the United States suffered its worst naval defeat until 1941.
1868 – A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 deaths; the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
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.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project.
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 – Hurricane Charley struck the U.S. state of Florida, just 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie inflicted its own damage to the state.
Born/died: | Maximus the Confessor |d|662| Al-Muktafi |d|908| Nawrūz |d|1297| George Grove |b|1820| José Ramón Guizado |b|1899| Jules Massenet |d|1912| Frederick Sanger |b|1918| Bobby Clarke |b|1949| 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: Independence Day in the Central African Republic (1960)

Opha May Johnson

582 – Maurice was crowned to succeed Byzantine emperor Tiberius II Constantine, who then died the following day.
1762 – Anglo-Spanish War: The United Kingdom captured Havana after a five-week siege, holding it until the Treaty of Paris the following year.
1918 – Opha May Johnson (pictured) became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
1961 – Construction began on the Berlin Wall, a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany.
2010 – After having been boarded by Canadian authorities, the MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed into detention.

Gerard David (d. 1523)
Alfred Hitchcock (b. 1899)
Yana Kasova (b. 1981)

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