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Today In History - August 13 |
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On This Date in History |
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523 St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1521 Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs 1642 Christian Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap 1651 Litchfield, CT was founded 1704 The English defeat the French at the Battle of Blenheim 1831 Nat Turner leads an uprising of slaves in Virginia 1868 A series of earthquakes kill 25,000 people and does $300 million in damages in Peru and Ecuador 1876 The Reciprocity Treaty between the US and Hawaii is ratified 1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville, Texas 1907 The first taxicab operates: in New York City 1919 Man O' War's only defeat: at Saratoga 1923 Mustapha Kemal is elected the president of Turkey 1928 The Soviet Union Spartacan Games begin 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to destroy a Nazi rubber plant in Silesia 1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus 1953 President Eisenhower establishes the Government Contract Compliance Committee 1960 The Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France 1961 Construction on the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany 1971 Paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car" 1988 The US beats Jamaica 5-1, in the 2nd round of the 1990 world soccer cup |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1422 William Caxton 1655 Johann Christoph Denner 1802 Nikolaus Lenau 1818 Lucy Stone 1819 Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1820 Sir George Grove 1860 Annie Oakley 1895 Robert Burton 1898 Jean Borota 1899 Alfred Hitchcock 1902 Felix Wankel 1902 Regis Toomey 1904 Charles "Buddy" Rogers 1908 Gene Raymond 1909 John Beal 1912 Ben Hogan 1912 Rita Johnson 1918 Frederick Sanger 1919 Rex Humbard 1920 George Shearing 1921 Neville Brand 1927 Fidel Castro 1929 Pat Harrington, Jr. 1930 Don Ho 1931 Norman Read 1934 Gary Davidson 1939 Saul Steinberg 1942 Robert L. Stewart 1943 Gary Ilman 1947 Gretchen Corbett 1948 Kathleen Battle 1949 Bobby Clarke 1951 Dan Fogelberg 1955 Betsy King 1958 Feargal Sharkey 1959 Danny Bonaduce 1959 Mark Nevin 1961 Dawn Lewis 1963 Pamela Jean Stein 1963 Tigg Ketler 1964 Ian Haughland 1967 Quinn Cummings |
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