August 13 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Elul ראש חודש אלול roshchodesh

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2015 — At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. ↗
• 2008 — South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori. ↗
• 2004 — One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. ↗
• 1978 — One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War. ↗
• 1977 — Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1998 — Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
• 1996 — Antonia Lottner, German tennis player
• 1994 — Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1993 — Moses Mbye, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Lucas Moura, Brazilian footballer