August 13th is known as Filet Mignon Day & Left-Handers Day.
Supergiant Games released their most ambitious game to date, Hades, on PC, Switch, and macOS.
TikTok star Loren Gray released her first song under Capitol Records called 'My Story.'
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
South Park premiered on Comedy Central, with the first episode titled 'Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.'
A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Berlin's city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
Saint John I became the Catholic Pope.
The Mayan calendar started being used.
