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2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It will be the 2013th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2010s decade. It will also be the first year to have all digits different from each other since 1987.

Predicted and scheduled events[link]

April[link]

• April 25 – Partial lunar eclipse visible in the Eastern hemisphere.

July[link]

• July 1 – Croatia is set to join the European Union.

September[link]

• September 7 – The 125th IOC Session will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2013. The International Olympic Committee will meet to elect the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics. They will also elect a new IOC President and will consider adding new sports for the 2020 Olympics.

Date unknown[link]

• The space program of the People's Republic of China will attempt its first unmanned Moon landing with the Chang'e 3 mission.^[1]
• NASA's Venus In-Situ Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program).
• The first products using memristor technology are expected to become available.^[2]
• The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013.^[3]
• China's Tiangong 2 to be launched.^[4]
• Australia will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.^[5]

Major religious holidays[link]

• January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Churches.
• February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
• March 20 – Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
• March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity).
• May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
• May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity).
• June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.
• August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
• September 22 – Autumn Equinox, also known as Mabon.
• November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
• November 3 – Diwali.
• November 28 – Chanukah.
• December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
• December 25 – Christmas.

In fiction[link]

Comic books[link]

• X-Men: The X-Men try to overthrow the dystopian rule of the robot Sentinels in the Days of Future Past storyline (1980).
• In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes (Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013."

Computer and video games[link]

• Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999): Game is possibly set in this year.
• Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006)
• Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2007): Flashbacks to this year occur.
• Manhunt 2 (2007): Present day missions are possibly set in this year while flashbacks are set in 2007.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010): The events of Call of the Dead occur in March.
• Metro 2033 (2010): A nuclear war occurs in this year.
• Resident Evil 6 (2012): The next virus outbreak in China and America is confirmed to be set in this year

Film[link]

• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
• The Postman (1997)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• The Book of Eli (2010)

Television[link]

• In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.
• The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.
• BBC Drama Spooks: Code 9 is set in this year.
• The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama" is set in this year since it aired in 2005 as the Simpsons siblings, Bart and Lisa, are shown where they will be eight years into the future.
• Smallville's season 9 finale, Salvation, depicted a vision of this year.
• The final episodes of the television show Death Note takes place during January of this year.

References[link]

2010s portal

Leo August (March 2, 1914 - December 4, 1997), of New Jersey, was a philatelist who, as a stamp dealer and publisher, created interest and awareness in the collecting of first day covers through the introduction in 1939 of "ArtCraft" engraved illustrated (or "cacheted") envelopes for use as first day covers. He also established the landmark line of "White Ace" stamp albums. ArtCraft became one of the world's most popular cachets.

Albums and cachets[link]

In 1933 Leo and his brother Samuel formed the Washington Stamp Exchange on Washington Street in Newark, New Jersey. In 1939 they established the Washington Press, which created and sold White Ace album pages for collectors. They also printed and sold high-quality envelopes bearing an Artcraft (later "ArtCraft") cachet of each anticipated United States stamp to be issued, so that stamp collectors could have the envelope franked and canceled by the post office with a “first day of issue” cancellation.

Philatelic philanthropy[link]

Leo and his brother were very interested in expanding the hobby of collecting first day covers and helped found the American First Day Cover Society in 1955 and supported it financially during its early years. He also helped create interest for the hobby of first day covers by instituting awards at various stamp shows and exhibitions.

Leo was a benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. and American Philatelic Society in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and one of the founders of the Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum on the campus of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.

Honors and awards[link]

Leo received numerous honors for his work in the field of philately. He was awarded the Luff Award in 1990 by the American Philatelic Society for outstanding contributions to philately, and was named Man of the Year in 1997 by the American First Day Cover Society. In 1998 he was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.

Legacy[link]

The Leo and Samuel August Memorial Award for best topical first day cover exhibit is given on an annual basis by the American First Day Cover Society. And, in his will, Leo provided a large bequest to The American Philatelic Research Library. The

See also[link]

• Philately

External links[link]

• APS Hall of Fame – Leo August
• The Washington Press

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