August 13
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Events
- 1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.
- 1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
Births
- 1871 - Karl Liebknecht, German communist (d. 1919)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
Deaths
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
