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August 13th is known as Filet Mignon Day & Left-Handers Day.

Today marks the 225^{th day of the year. We now have only days remaining until the end of the year.}

August 13 in history was a great day for astronomers, but also a terrible one for natural disasters. Keep reading to find out more about what historical events happened on this day.

Did you know that on this day in 1985, a three-year-old from Dublin became the world’s youngest heart & lung transplant patient? Britain’s leading transplant specialist, Magdi Yacoub, performed the operation.

Keep reading for more fun & interesting facts about August 13^{th in history!\r\n\r\n}

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What memorable events happened on August 13 in history? Keep reading to find out!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2021\r\n\r\n
Supergiant Games released their most ambitious game to date, Hades, on PC, Switch, and macOS.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Hades was a huge step up from Supergiant Games’ previous releases in terms of plot and complexity. At the 2020 Golden Joystick Awards, it won both the best Indie Game Award and the Critic’s Choice Award.\r\n\r\n
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2018\r\n\r\n
TikTok star Loren Gray released her first song under Capitol Records called “My Story.”\r\n\r\n
$OTD in 2018: TikTok star Loren Gray released her first song under Capitol Records called \"My Story.\"$ \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2014\r\n\r\n
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1997\r\n\r\n
South Park premiered on Comedy Central, with the first episode titled “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It was the first weekly show to carry a TV-MA rating.\r\n\r\n
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1985\r\n\r\n
A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world’s youngest heart and lung transplant patient.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Jamie Gavin had the four-hour operation at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, London.\r\n\r\n
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1969\r\n\r\n
After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1961\r\n\r\n
Berlin’s city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1906\r\n\r\n
Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On this day, a bartender was killed, and an officer was injured. Although the blame was put on black soldiers, the all-white commanders confirmed all personnel was at their barracks.\r\n\r\n
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1898\r\n\r\n
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.\r\n\r\n
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The German astronomer was working at the Berlin Urania observatory, taking long-exposure photos of a much more distant asteroid, when he captured evidence of 433 Eros. The stony asteroid is approximately 10.4 miles (16.8 km) in diameter and is elongated in shape.\r\n\r\n
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1892\r\n\r\n
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1889\r\n\r\n
Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1868\r\n\r\n
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.\r\n\r\n
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On this day, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook the two countries and claimed the lives of more than 25,000 people.\r\n\r\n
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1608\r\n\r\n
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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523 AD\r\n\r\n
Saint John I became the Catholic Pope.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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3114 BC\r\n\r\n
The Mayan calendar started being used.\r\n\r\n
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