Söndag den 13:e augusti år 2023
Today's name is: Quay. Congratulations on your name day!
This is week: 32
Day of the year is: 225 of total 365 days.
Historical events this day: (from Wikipedia)
- 523 - Then Hormisdas has passed away a week earlier is selected John I to the Pope.
- 1099 - Then Urban II has passed away two weeks earlier Ranierius is elected Pope and takes the name Paschal II.
- 1645 – Peace in Brömsebro concluded between Sweden and Denmark. Sweden gets from Denmark Gotland, Härjedalen, Jamtland and Dipper and Halland in 30 years.
- 1876 – First complete set of Ring of the Nibelung played in Bayreuth.
- 1900 – S/S Deutschland III wins the blue ribbon as the fastest Atlantic liner.
- 1905 - I Norway a referendum is held to dissolve union with Sweden. Out of 368,208 voters, only 184 (half a percent) vote for the union to be maintained.
- 1919 - The Sports Association Leksands IF formed.
- 1927 - After the defeat in Nanchang departs Chiang Kai-shek as commander-in-chief over National Revolutionary Army and retreats to the hometown Xikou.
- 1937 – Japanese invades China and attacks Shanghai.
- 1960 – central African Republic explains himself independently from France.[3]
- 1961 – The Berlin Wall begins to be built to stop the mass emigration of East Germans.
- 1987 – East Johansson resigns as chairman of The Swedish Association of Journalists after criticism of his real estate dealings.
- 2001 – The Ohrid Agreement be signed in Ohrid and thereby end the conflict between UÇK and Macedonia.
- 2004 – 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece inaugurated by president Costis Stephanopoulos (and runs until August 29).
- 2015 - A truck blows up on one market among people in Iraq. It was intentional. 76 people die and 212 people are injured.