August 13
1521 - After a three-month siege, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish conquistadors, marking the end of one empire and the rise of another.
1792 - French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family.
1846 - The American flag was raised in Los Angeles for the first time.
1868 - A series of earthquakes killed more than 25,000 in Peru and Ecuador.
1889 - William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for a coin-operated telephone.
1906 - An all-Black army unit was accused of a shooting rampage that left one civilian dead at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. (In 1972, they were all exonerated.)
1910 - Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90.
1932 - Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out “for all or nothing.”
1942 - Disney's animated film "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place.
1961 - East Germany sealed off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.
2003 - Iraq began pumping crude oil from its northern oil fields for the first time since the start of the war.
2004 - TV chef Julia Child died in Montecito, California, two days short of her 92nd birthday.
2011 - Seven people were killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during a powerful storm just before a concert was to begin.
2018 - A lawyer for longtime FBI agent Peter Strzok, who’d been removed from the Russia investigation over anti-Trump text messages, said Strzok had been fired by the agency.
2020 - In an interview on Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump acknowledged that he was starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots.
Birthdays
20 - Devenity Perkins (actress)
24 - Lennon Stella (actor)
33 - DeMarcus Cousins (basketball player)
38 - Ray Diaz (actor)
39 - James Morrison (singer)
41 - Sebastian Stan (actor)
44 - Kathryn Fiore (actress)
47 - Gregory Fitoussi (actor)
50 - Andy Griggs (singer)
56 - Quinn Cummings (actor)
59 - Debi Mazar (actress)
61 - John Slattery (actor)
62 - Dawnn Lewis (actress)
62 - Sam Champion (TV personality)
64 - Danny Bonaduce (actor)
68 - Betsy King (golfer)
74 - Bobby Clarke (hockey player)
79 - Kevin Tighe (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 13
1948 - At age 42, Satchel Paige pitches his first complete game in the major leagues.
1963 - Warren Spahn sets the MLB career record for strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher with 2,382.
1979 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the 14th player in MLB history with 3,000 career hits.
1986 - United States Football League standout Herschel Walker signed to play with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died after a battle with liver cancer at age 63.
2008 - American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to do so.
1521 - After a three-month siege, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish conquistadors, marking the end of one empire and the rise of another.
1792 - French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family.
1846 - The American flag was raised in Los Angeles for the first time.
1868 - A series of earthquakes killed more than 25,000 in Peru and Ecuador.
1889 - William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for a coin-operated telephone.
1906 - An all-Black army unit was accused of a shooting rampage that left one civilian dead at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. (In 1972, they were all exonerated.)
1910 - Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90.
1932 - Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out “for all or nothing.”
1942 - Disney's animated film "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place.
1961 - East Germany sealed off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.
2003 - Iraq began pumping crude oil from its northern oil fields for the first time since the start of the war.
2004 - TV chef Julia Child died in Montecito, California, two days short of her 92nd birthday.
2011 - Seven people were killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during a powerful storm just before a concert was to begin.
2018 - A lawyer for longtime FBI agent Peter Strzok, who’d been removed from the Russia investigation over anti-Trump text messages, said Strzok had been fired by the agency.
2020 - In an interview on Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump acknowledged that he was starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots.
Birthdays
20 - Devenity Perkins (actress)
24 - Lennon Stella (actor)
33 - DeMarcus Cousins (basketball player)
38 - Ray Diaz (actor)
39 - James Morrison (singer)
41 - Sebastian Stan (actor)
44 - Kathryn Fiore (actress)
47 - Gregory Fitoussi (actor)
50 - Andy Griggs (singer)
56 - Quinn Cummings (actor)
59 - Debi Mazar (actress)
61 - John Slattery (actor)
62 - Dawnn Lewis (actress)
62 - Sam Champion (TV personality)
64 - Danny Bonaduce (actor)
68 - Betsy King (golfer)
74 - Bobby Clarke (hockey player)
79 - Kevin Tighe (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 13
1948 - At age 42, Satchel Paige pitches his first complete game in the major leagues.
1963 - Warren Spahn sets the MLB career record for strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher with 2,382.
1979 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the 14th player in MLB history with 3,000 career hits.
1986 - United States Football League standout Herschel Walker signed to play with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died after a battle with liver cancer at age 63.
2008 - American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to do so.
