Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 13

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

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Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in the Central African Republic (1960)	section needs updating
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
1779 – American Revolutionary War: Off the coast of Maine, the United States suffered its worst naval defeat until 1941.	[citation needed] x6
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.	Too much uncited
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
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project.	tags
1954 – The "Qaumi Taranah", the Pakistani national anthem, was first broadcast on Radio Pakistan.	refimprove section
1961 – Construction began on the Berlin Wall, a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany.	short, large % unsourced
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
Alfred Hitchcock|b|1899|	[citation needed] x2, [failed verification] x3, [page needed] x2, [verification needed] x2
José Ramón Guizado|b|1899|	stubby, DoB not mentioned nor sourced in main prose
Gay Uncles Day (2023)	Stub

Eligible

• 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim.

• 1724 – Bach led the Thomanerchor in Leipzig in the first performance of the chorale cantata, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101.
• 1762 – Anglo-Spanish War: The United Kingdom captured Havana after a five-week siege, holding it until the Treaty of Paris the following year.
• 1868 – A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 casualties; the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
• 1876 – The first Bayreuth Festival, created by Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima to showcase his stage works, was opened with Das Rheingold.
• 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.
• 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 – Merely 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie struck the U.S. state of Florida, Hurricane Charley inflicted further damage to the region (example pictured).

• Born/died: | Maximus the Confessor|d|662| al-Muktafi|d|908| Nawrūz|d|1297| Gerard David|d|1523| George Grove|b|1820| Florence Nightingale|d|1910| Jules Massenet|d|1912| Frederick Sanger |b|1918| Marjorie Paxson|b|1923| Bobby Clarke|b|1949| Hayato Ikeda|d|1965| Ida McNeil|d|1974| Yana Kasova|b|1981| Sebastian Stan |b|1982| Tigran Petrosian|d|1984| Tim Richmond|d|1989| Jaemin|b|2000| David Lange|d|2005|

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.

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• 582 – Maurice was crowned Byzantine emperor to succeed Tiberius II Constantine.
• 1650 – General George Monck founded the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regular regiment of the British Army in continuous active service.
• 1918 – Opha May Johnson (pictured) became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
• 1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launched an air operation, codenamed Adlertag, to destroy the British Royal Air Force; its failure indefinitely postponed the German invasion of the United Kingdom.
• 2010 – After being boarded by Canadian authorities, MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed into detention.