Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 13
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- 1876 – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen
- 1902 – Birth of engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel engine
- 1917 – Death of chemist Eduard Buchner, recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1961 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins