This Day In History

August 13
1937
The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1960
The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961
The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin.
1966
China announces Cultural Revolution. China announces plans for a "new leap forward" after the first meeting in four years of the Communist Party's Central Committee.
1978
150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1985
Heart-lung transplant makes history. A three-year-old boy from Dublin becomes the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
2004
156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2004
Opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.