August 13 in history: • 582 – Maurice was crowned as Byzantine emperor, succeeding Tiberius II Constantine. → go there • 1650 – General George Monck founded Monck's Regiment of Foot, the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regular regiment of the British Army in continuous active service. → go there • 1876 – A performance of Das Rheingold (scene pictured) opened the first performance of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, attended by emperors and other composers. → go there • 1918 – Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. → go there • 2010 – After being boarded by Canadian authorities, MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed in detention. → go there Born 1820: George Grove Wiki link Died 1965: Hayato Ikeda Wiki link Born 1982: Sebastian Stan Wiki link Died 2000: Nazia Hassan Wiki link Pictured: Scene from the 1876 production of ''Das Rheingold''.