Holidays Calendar for July 13, 2020
Naadam is a traditional three-day festival in Mongolia which is celebrated as a public holiday. It is held from July 11 to July 13. In 2010, it was included to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Montenegro celebrates Statehood Day on July 13 every year. This holiday shouldn't be confused with Independence Day, since they originate from different historic events.
International Town Criers Day is observed annually on the second Monday of July. It celebrates a profession that is often thought to be extinct, but this is just a common misconception. While the profession is certainly a rarity these days, town criers still exist and even hold annual competitions.
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev established the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan by his Presidential Decree on July 13, 1992. This date became the starting point for the celebration of National Security Committee Day in Kazakhstan.
Bhanu Jayanti is the birthday of Bhanubhakta Acharya, a renowned Nepali poet, writer and translator who is considered one of the founders of Nepali literature. It is annually celebrated in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, which has a significant Nepali population.
Despite its name, World Rock Day (Dia Mundial Do Rock) is observed mainly in Brazil. It was created to celebrate rock music and commemorate the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert that helped raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.
National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day, also known as simply Barbershop Music Appreciation Day, is observed annually on July 13. It was created to celebrate barbershop music and barbershop quartets and choruses across the nation.
Kashmir Martyrs’ Day is observed annually on July 13 in Kashmir, a geographical region of the Indian subcontinent that is the subject of a territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Martyrs’ Day, however, isn’t directly related to the conflict, although it does have some connections to its background.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day, celebrated on Tennessee in July 13, is one of the most controversial holidays in the United States since it celebrates a Confederate Army general who was also a slave trader and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
National Beans ‘N’ Franks Day is observed annually on July 13. It was created to celebrate a simple yet delicious dish that is considered one of the first comfort foods in the United States.
Festivals on July 13, 2020
- Bangkok International Motor Show in Bangkok, Thailand
- Malta Jazz Festival in Valletta, Malta
- Moldejazz in Molde, Norway
- Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk in Vitebsk, Belarus
- Buxton International Festival in Buxton, United Kingdom
- Taiwan International Balloon Festival in Luye, Taiwan
- Taormina Film Fest in Taormina, Italy
- Aarhus Jazz Festival in Aarhus, Denmark
- Chartres en lumières (Chartres in Lights) in Chartres, France
- Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in Bucheon, South Korea
- Highland Renaissance Festival in Eminence, USA
- Festival d’Avignon in Avignon, France
- Buxton Festival Fringe in Buxton, United Kingdom
- Sofia International Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria
- ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin, Germany
This Day in History
- 2024 Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, was shot in the upper part of his right ear at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
- 2024 Died: Shannen Doherty, American actress best known for her television roles as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and 90210, and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed.
- 2020 After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera was recovered from Lake Piru, California. She was pronounced dead from drowning at the age of 33.
- 2013 George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. In many cities, protests in support of the Martin family occurred.
- 2013 Died: Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee.
- 2004 Died: Carlos Kleiber, German-born Austrian conductor who is considered to be one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
- 1988 Born: Colton Haynes, American actor and model best known for his roles as Jackson Whittemore in Teen Wolf and Roy Harper in Arrow.
- 1985 Vice President George H. W. Bush became Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan had to undergo surgery.
- 1982 Born: Aya Cash, American actress. She is best known for starring as Gretchen Cutler in You're the Worst, as Stormfront in The Boys, and as Cheryl Peterson in Welcome to Flatch.
- 1980 Died: Seretse Khama, statesman and politician from Botswana who served as the first President of Botswana from 1966 until his death.
- 1974 Died: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, English experimental physicist who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 1967 Born: Benny Benassi, Italian DJ and record producer. He is best known for his 2002 club hit "Satiscation", which was Benassi's debut single.
- 1962 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismissed one-third of his Cabinet. This Cabinet reshuffle is known as the Night of the Long Knives.
- 1956 In Haifa, Israel, construction of an underground funicular railway began. It was named the Carmelit after Mount Carmel through which it runs.
- 1954 Died: Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits. Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition are important in her work.
- 1950 Born: George Nelson, American physicist, science educator, astronomer, and astronaut. He spent 17 days 2 hours and 43 minutes in space.
- 1945 Died: Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, director, producer and screenwriter. On Broadway, she was noted for her work in the classic plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Turgenev.
- 1942 Born: Harrison Ford, American actor and film producer best known for playing Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.
- 1941 The Communist Party of Yugoslavia initiated a popular uprising in Montenegro against Italian occupation forces. It was suppressed within six weeks.
- 1940 Born: Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek franchise and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series.
- 1930 The inaugural FIFA World Cup began in Uruguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 and became the first nation to win the World Cup.
- 1930 Born: Naomi Shemer, Israeli musician and songwriter. Her song "Jerusalem of Gold" is considered to be the unofficial anthem of Israel.
- 1928 Born: Bob Crane, American actor, drummer, disc jockey, and radio host best known for playing Colonel Robert E. Hogan in Hogan's Heroes.
- 1924 Died: Alfred Marshall, English economist regarded as one of the most influential economists of his time. His best known work is Principles of Economics.
- 1923 The Hollywood Sign (originally the Hollywoodland Sign) was officially dedicated. Its purpose was to advertise the name of a new housing development.
- 1921 Died: Gabriel Lippmann, Franco-Luxembourgish physicist who was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his input to color photography.
- 1919 The British airship R34 landed in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
- 1878 The UK, France, Austro-Hungary, Germany, Russia, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Berlin for the Settlement of the Affairs of the East.
- 1870 Otto von Bismarck released the Ems Dispatch that incited France to declare the Franco-Prussian War. The name referred to the resort of Bad Ems.
- 1841 Born: Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and urban planner. Wagner made a lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna.
- 1793 Died: Jean-Paul Marat, French physician, scientist, radical journalist, and politician best known for his career during the French Revolution.
- 1793 Born: John Clare, English poet whose best known work is Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. He was known as "peasant poet".
- 1762 Died: James Bradley, English astronomer who is best known for discovering the aberration of light and the nutation of the Earth's axis.
- 1527 Born: John Dee, English astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, mathematician, imperialist, and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.