August 13

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1553	Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.	Aidan John Moffat	Less Than Three	Ten Short Songs
2	1831	Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.	Badly Drawn Boy	I Need a Sign	How Did I Get Here?
3	1898	Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.	John Cage	4'33"	John Cage
4	1913	First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.	Mira	Stainless	Apart
5	1920	Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.	Queen	The Miracle	The Miracle
6	1942	Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.	Flash	Manhattan Morning	Out of Our Hands
7	1969	The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.	Stereolab	Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious	Dots and Loops

(Historical facts about August 13 are from Wikipedia.)