Major Events
- 1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan, marking the end of the Aztec Empire
- 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyōto’s Enryaku 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’ 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 begin the Battle of Shanghai, a conflict that will last 3 months and involve 1 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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- 2013 “Crash My Party” 4th studio album by Luke Bryan is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2014)
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- 2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins three gold medals, all in world record time, in one day at the Beijing Olympics: 200m IM (1:54.23), 200m 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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