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Events on August 13

• 1521 The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, falls to Hernán Cortés.
• 1876 At the first Bayreuth Festival on the Green Hill, Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung is performed for the first time, with the festival running through 17 August.
• 1898 The German Imperial Patent Office grants Ferdinand von Zeppelin patent number 98590 for a steerable aircraft with several lifting bodies arranged one behind another. This retroactively protects the design for his rigid airship with effect from 31 August 1895.
• 1923 Gustav Stresemann forms the first Great Coalition in Germany.
• 1942 Walt Disney's animated feature Bambi premieres in the United States at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
• 1952 Germany and Japan become members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• 1961 With the sealing off of roads and rail routes to West Berlin by members of the National People's Army (NVA), the German Border Police (DGP), the Volunteer People's Police and the Garrisoned People's Police, as well as the Combat Groups of the Working Class of the GDR, the construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
• 1987 In Germany, the James Bond film Licence to Die opens in cinemas. The film, in which Timothy Dalton appears for the first time in the leading role, also marks the 25th anniversary of the series.
• 1989 At CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider, the first particle collisions are detected.
• 2001 The Arena AufSchalke opens in Gelsenkirchen. It is the first stadium of this magnitude built without public funds by the club FC Schalke 04.
• 2002 In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the “century flood” inundates extensive areas.
• 2004 The XXVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Athens.

Born on August 13

• 1871 Karl Liebknecht, German lawyer, politician and revolutionary, member of the Reichstag (MdR), co-founder and chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
• 1872 Richard Willstätter, German chemist
• 1902 Felix Wankel, German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine
• 1911 Johannes Prassek, German Catholic priest, one of the Lübeck Martyrs
• 1940 Dirk Sager, German journalist
• 1941 Henning Voscherau, German notary public and politician
• 1960 Phil Taylor, English darts player
• 1970 Alan Shearer, English footballer
• 1971 Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
• 1971 Heike Makatsch, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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