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On This Day, August 13
- 2020: Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.
- 2015: At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
- 2014: A Cessna Citation Excel crashes in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil killing all seven people aboard, including Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos.
- 2008: Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
- 2004: One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.