August 13

is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian_Calendar (226th in leap_years), with 140 days remaining.

Events

1521 - Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico_City) falls to conquistador Hernan_Fernando_Cortes

- English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.

1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.

fighter bases and radar installations.

1942 - Walt_Disney's animated cartoon "Bambi" premiers.

1960 - Central_African_Republic declares independence from France

1960 - Chad declares independence from France

1961 - German_Democratic_Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to frustrate its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.

Births

1422 - William_Caxton, printer

1625 - Erasmus_Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698)

1792 - Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom

1818 - Lucy_Stone, pioneering women's rights activist

1820 - Sir George_Grove, author, Dictionary of Music and Musicians (d. 1900)

1823 - Goldwin_Smith, historian and journalist (d. 1910)

1851 - Felix_Adler, educator, founder of the Ethical Movement (d. 1933)

1860 - Annie_Oakley, sharpshooter (d. 1926)

1866 - Giovanni_Agnelli, industrialist (d. 1945)

1888 - John_Logie_Baird, television pioneer (d. 1946)

1895 - Bert_Lahr, actor (d. 1967)

1899 - Alfred_Hitchcock, director (d. 1980)

1902 - Felix_Wankel, engineer and inventor (d. 1988)

1904 - Charles (Buddy) Rogers, actor (d. 1999)

1907 - Sir Basil_Spence, architect (d. 1976)

1912 - Salvador_Luria, biologist; Nobel Prize, 1969 (d. 1991)

1912 - Ben_Hogan, golf champion

1919 - George_Shearing, musician

1920 - Neville_Brand, actor (d. 1992)

1926 - Fidel_Castro, revolutionary and politician

1930 - Don_Ho, musician

1933 - Doctor Jocelyn_Elders, United_States_Surgeon_General

1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant, baseball player

1948 - Kathleen_Battle, opera singer

1949 - Bobby_Clarke, ice_hockey star

1951 - Dan_Fogelberg, singer

1952 - Herb_Ritts, celebrity photographer

1959 - Danny_Bonaduce, actor

1969 - Midori_Ito, Japanese figure skater

1970 - Alan_Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player

Deaths

1863 - Eugene_Delacroix, painter

1946 - H._G._Wells, writer

1964 - Gwynne_Owen_Evans and Peter_Anthony_Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain.

1995 - Mickey_Mantle, Baseball_Hall_of_Fame member (b. 1931)

1996 - David_Tudor, pianist and composer

Holidays and observances

Roman_Empire - Vertumnalias in honor of Vertumnus ---- August_12 - August_14 - July_13 - September_13 -- listing of all days

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