13 August

Events which occurred on the 13th of August.

Events[]

1521: Hernán Cortés captures the future Mexico City following a long siege.
1893: The San Francisco Register reports hundreds dying from a cholera outbreak. (TNG episode: "Time's Arrow")
1899: Movie director Alfred Hitchcock is born.
1910: Nurse Florence Nightingale dies.
1926: Cuban leader Fidel Castro is born.
1946: Science fiction author H.G. Wells dies.
1957: After Seven of Nine repairs a damaged probe in Patterson's Creek in 2375, an Earth town trapped within a temporal causality loop on 12 August 1957 is restored. Unable to retain his memory of events, resident Matty Redmond complains in his diary about the dull life in his town. (VOY - Explorer short story: "Summer Days Can Last Forever")
1995: Major League Baseball legend Mickey Mantle dies.
2152: Chef's menu aboard Enterprise NX-01 this day includes trout amandine. (ENT episode: "Singularity")
2373: Commander Chakotay of the USS Voyager answers a distress call from what would become the Borg Cooperative. (VOY episode: "Unity")

1977: TOS comic: "When Planets Collide", part 10 is reprinted in Mighty TV Comic", Issue 1339.
1980: The 46th installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 23rd installment of TOS comic: "Quarantine" is published.
1982: The 27th installment of TOS comic: "The Nogura Regatta" is published.
1983: The 36th and final installment of TOS comic: "Terminally Yours" is published.
2014: TOS - The Q Gambit comic: "Part 2" is released by IDW Publishing.
2019: TOS novel: The Antares Maelstrom is published by Gallery Books.
2020

Adventures RPG module: Iconic Villains Non-Player Characters is released by Mōdiphiüs Entertainment.
Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 125 is released by Eaglemoss Collections.