Editing 2013 (section)

===August===
*[[August 13]] – Platform game, [[Geometry Dash]] is released by Swedish [[Video game developer|developer]], [[RobTop]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}<!-- WP:RS needed; removed link to WP-->
* [[August 14]] &ndash; Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, [[August 2013 Rabaa massacre|leaving 2,696 people dead]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|title=Egypt's Brotherhood to hold 'march of anger'|date=2013-08-16|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=2017-02-11|archive-date=August 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816123944/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The raids were described by [[Human Rights Watch]] as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-raba-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity|title=Egypt: Rab'a Killings Likely Crimes against Humanity|date=2014-08-12|publisher=Human Rights Watch|access-date=2017-02-11|language=en|archive-date=December 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218220007/https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-raba-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 15]] &ndash; [[Horacio Cartes]] is sworn in as [[President of Paraguay]].
* [[August 19]] &ndash; All time most expensive public school in Norway, [[Kuben Upper Secondary School]], opens.<ref>[[NRK]] (31 July 2013): [http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/skole-til-nesten-2-milliarder-1.11157172 ''Her er Norges dyreste skole''] (Norwegian)</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; 1,429 are killed in the [[Ghouta chemical attack]] during the Syrian Civil War.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|title=Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013|date=August 30, 2013|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|publisher=[[White House]]|access-date=August 30, 2013|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118002457/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The United Kingdom Parliament [[List of Government defeats in the House of Commons (1945–present)#Cameron (coalition government)|votes against]] UK military attacks on Syria.<ref name="blow">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria|title=Blow to Cameron's authority as MPs rule out British assault on Syria|author1=Nicholas Watt|author2=Rowena Mason|author3=Nick Hopkins|website=The Guardian|date=August 30, 2013|access-date=October 30, 2017|archive-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830032727/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria|url-status=live}}</ref>