August 13th (1918) was a Tuesday. It's the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 13th August, 1918
» Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
» Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) History of BMW BMW GmbH goes public or established as a public company in Germany.
Famous Birthdays on August 13 in 1918
» Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)
» Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
August 13th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints known as Feast Day:
» Cassian of Imola
» Hippolytus of Rome
» Jakob Gapp
» John Berchmans
» Maximus the Confessor
» Pope Pontian
» Radegunde
» Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill, Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)
» Clara Maass (with Nightingale Lutheran Church)
» August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Diana (mythology) known as Festival of Aventine Diana (Roman Empire)
» Temple of Hercules Victor e.g Hercules Victori (Roman Empire)
» Public holidays in the Central African Republic e.g Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Central African Republic from France in 1960.
» International Lefthanders Day (International observance or International)