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Today in History ~ August 13
International Left-handers Day [T][H]
Events1415 - King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
1521 - Spanish conquerors seize Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs. Cortes's men leveled the city and captured Cuauhtemoc, the Aztec emperor. This razing essentially ended the Aztec Civilization [H]
1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1630 - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1651 - Litchfield, CT founded
1704 - French & Bavarian forces are routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
1704, the Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English and Austrian forces.
1732 - Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris
1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royal family, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1814 - Britain Takes Over Dutch Cape Colony After several years of sporadic military occupation, Britain was granted formal control of southern Africa's Cape of Good Hope by the Congress of Vienna.
1814 - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1846 - The American flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles.
1864 - Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
1876 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1876 - Richard Wagner's monumental epic, "Ring of the Nibelungs" premieres (four operas on four consecutive nights)
1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1898 - US forces under Adm George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American war
1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1907 - The first taxicab took to the streets of New York City.
1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1919 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Ataturk) as president
1923 - US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1930 - Capt. Frank Hawkes set an air speed record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes.
1932 - Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
1934 - The satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner," created by Al Capp, made its debut.
1937 - Japanese attack Shanghai
1940 - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk
1945 - 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
1946 - Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
1948 - Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1950 - Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1953 - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1960 - USSR withdraws advisors from China
1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo One.
1961 - Barbed Wire Divides Berlin Early in the morning, East German troops sealed off all roads between East and West Berlin, and began laying down barbed wire along the border in order to halt the flight of refugees.
1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
1981 - Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
1981 - In a ceremony at his California ranch, President Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions.
1989 - 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
1990 - Singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield was left paralyzed when he was hit by a wind-blown lighting rig on an outdoor stage in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1991 - Clark Clifford resigned as chairman of First American Bankshares Inc., a bank holding company the government said had been illegally acquired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. (Clifford and law partner Robert Altman were indicted in 1992 on charges of lying to regulators and receiving bribes from BCCI; Altman was acquitted at trial, and remaining charges against both men were dropped.)
1991 - VP Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
1992 - Comedian, actor and director Woody Allen began legal action against actress Mia Farrow to win custody of their three children (a judge later ruled against Allen).
1992 - A gunman dressed in military fatigues went on a shooting spree in a plant nursery in Watsonville, Calif., killing three and wounding four others before killing himself.
1993 - Israel agreed for the first time to negotiate with a Palestinian delegation whose members belonged officially to the PLO.
1993 - US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all e-mails
1996 - At their convention in San Diego, Republicans delivered a blistering critique of President Clinton's record, portraying the Democratic incumbent as an unprincipled liberal conning voters with election-year conservatism.
1996 - Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
2000 - On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, 3,500 protesters demonstrated against police brutality and in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row for killing a Philadelphia police officer.
2000 - Somalia swore in legislators for its first central government after almost a decade of internecine warfare.
Birthdays Today
1422 - William Caxton (printer: 1st to print a book in English language: Recuyell of the Histories of Troy)
1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1818 - Lucy Stone (Ms Lucy) women's suffrage movement leader, fought for women to be able to keep their maiden name after marriage
1820 - George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer (Grove's Dictionary)
1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
1851 - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (last survivor of Union Volunteers), died in 1937
1860 - Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee) sharpshooter, frontierswoman performer: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show [H]
1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
1879 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
1888 - John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1895 - Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim) (actor: The Wizard of Oz (Lion), Rose Marie, Ship Ahoy, The Night They Raided Minsky's)
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock (The Master of Suspense: director: Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, Rebecca, To Catch a Thief, Frenzy, Notorious, Suspicion, The Thirty-Nine Steps; TV host: Alfred Hitchcock Presents) [H]
1902 - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 - Regis Toomey (actor: Change of Habit, Warlock, They Died with Their Boots On, Shadows of the Orient, The Curfew Breakers)
1904 - Buddy (Charles) Rogers (actor: Abie's Irish Rose, Varsity, Mexican Spitfire at Sea, My Best Girl)
1907 - Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1908 - Gene Raymond (Guion) (actor: Hit the Deck, Flying Down to Rio; host: TV's Reader's Digest, Hollywood Summer Theatre, Fireside Theatre)
1912 - Ben Hogan (golf champion: Masters [1951, 53], U.S. Open [1948, 50, 51, 53], British Open [1953], PGA [1946, 48])
1912 - Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist
1913 - Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus
1919 - George Shearing (jazz pianist: September in the Rain, I'll Take Romance, Changing with the Times; composer: Lullaby of Birdland, Conception, Consternation)
1919 - Rex Humbard, televanglist
1920 - Neville Brand (actor: Stalag 17, Birdman of Alcatraz, Riot in Cell Block II, Laredo; U.S. Army: 4th most-decorated [WWII])
1926 - Fidel Castro Ruz (Cuban leader)
1929 - Pat Harrington (Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: One Day at a Time [1983-84], The Jack Paar Show, The Steve Allen Show, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Danny Thomas Show)
1930 - Don Ho (singer: Tiny Bubbles; Waikiki entertainer, host: The Don Ho Show)
1930 - Vinegar Bend (Wilmer) Mizell (baseball)
1935 - Jim 'Mudcat' Grant (baseball: pitcher)
1939 - Saul Steinberg, artist (The Art of Living)
1940 - Tony Cloninger (baseball: Atlanta Braves: only player from National League and only pitcher to have two grand slams in a game [July 3, 1966])
1944 - Kevin Tighe (actor: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Newsies, Double Cross, City of Hope, Another 48 Hrs., Caught in the Act)
1947 - Gretchen Corbett (actress: The Rockford Files, Jaws of Satan, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Savage Bees)
1949 - Andre Thornton (baseball)
1949 - Bobby Clarke (Hockey Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Flyers: Hart Memorial Trophy winner [1973, 75, 76], coach, general manager)
1949 - Cliff Fish (musician: bassist: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died)
1951 - Dan Fogelberg (singer: Hard to Say, Longer, Leader of the Band, The Language of Love, Same Old Lang Syne, Run for the Roses)
1952 - Dan Hardeman (football)
1958 - Scott Hamilton, Toledo Ohio, figure skater (Oly-gold-1984)
1959 - Danny Bonaduce (actor: The Partridge Family, H.O.T.S., America's Deadliest Home Video; disc jockey)
1967 - Quinn Cummings (actress: The Goodbye Girl, The Babysitter, Night Terror, Intimate Strangers)
1969 - Midori Ito, Tokyo Japan, ice skater (Oly-silver-92)
Famous deaths
0662 - Maximus Confessor, Greek theologian/crusader
1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47
1896 - John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at 90
1912 - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
1928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74
1946 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
1991 - Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63.
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