page_title: 2013
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 / Events / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Bassaricyon neblina "Olinguito" taken in the wild at Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Ecuador.
context_page_description: 2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year since 1987 to have all four of its digits being different numbers.
context_section_description: August 1 - A court in Italy confirms the prison sentence against Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
  August 1 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia.
  August 3 - Hassan Rouhani becomes President of Iran.
  August 4 - American embassies in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa are closed due to a threat from Al-Qaeda. These embassies will be closed throughout the month of August.
  August 5 - The first laboratory-grown beef burger is eaten in London.
  August 10 - Dozens of people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad.
  August 14 - Egypt declares a national state of emergency as hundreds of pro-Mohamed Morsi demonstrators are killed by security forces.
  August 14 - Carmelo Flores Laura of Bolivia might become the world's oldest living person in history if his documents prove that he is in fact 123 years old, after his baptism certificate is released. It is hard to prove as birth certificates did not exist in Bolivia until 1940.
  August 15 - A new species of mammal is found in northwestern South America. Scientists name the new species Olinguito.
  August 15 - Horacio Cartes becomes President of Paraguay.
  August 21 - A suspected chemical gas attack occurs in Syria.
  August 26 - UN weapons inspectors start taking samples at the scene of a suspected chemical gas attack on Syria.
  August 28 - The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech "I Have A Dream" is celebrated across the United States. A ceremony is held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter attend the celebration.
  August 29 - The majority of MPs in the British House of Commons votes against military action in Syria.
caption: The discovery of the Olinguito is announced on August 15.
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