Timeline August 2013

Events in August 2013 6

• 1925 – 2013 Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) Died 20 August 2013, aged 87 Elmore Leonard was an American author of crime novels including Get Shorty and Out of Sight, many of which were adapted into films. He died at his home in Michigan after suffering a stroke.
• 1939 – 2013 Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) Died 30 August 2013, aged 74 Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet and Nobel laureate, widely regarded as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. He died in Dublin following a short illness.
• 2013 US Open 2013 Men: Rafael Nadal · Women: Serena Williams
• 2013 Death of Prince Friso Dutch royal dies after coma Prince Friso died following complications from his skiing accident.
• 2013 Chemical weapons attack in Ghouta Sarin gas attack near Damascus kills hundreds Rockets carrying the nerve agent sarin struck rebel-held suburbs of Ghouta near Damascus, killing several hundred civilians during Syria's civil war. The attack prompted international outcry and led to a US-Russia brokered agreement for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons stockpile.
• 2013 Diana Nyad swims from Cuba to Florida First person to complete the crossing without a shark cage Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad completed a roughly 110-mile swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, in about 53 hours, becoming the first person to make the crossing without a protective shark cage. It was her fifth attempt at the swim, at age 64.