Today in History - August 13
Events
0523 - St.
John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - Raniero elected as Pope Paschal
II
1415 - Armies of King
Henry V of England
land at the mouth of the Seine
River
1516 - King
Charles I of Spain
& King
Francis I of France
sign Treaty of Noyons
1521 - Spanish
Conquistadors
capture Tenochtitlan,
Mexico
City from Aztecs
1578 - Henry
III of France,
Duke of Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1608 - John
Smith's story of the first days of Jamestown,
submitted for publication
1624 - Cardinal
Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France
by Louis
XIII
1630 - Ferdinand
II dismisses supreme commander Albrecht
von Wallenstein
1642 - Christiaan
Huygens discovers Martian
south polar cap
1645 - Sweden
& Denmark
sign Peace Treaty of Bromsebro
1651 - Litchfield,
Connecticut,
founded
1695 - French
troops under duc
de Villeroi attack Brussels,
Belgium
1696 - State of Drenthe,
Netherlands
installs Willem
III as Mayor
1704 - French
& Bavarian
forces routed by British,
German, & Dutch armies at Blenheim
1713 - King
Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg,
Prussia
1732 - Voltaire's
Zaire, premieres in Paris
1740 - Hunger strike in Rotterdam,
Netherlands
1784 - British
parliament passes the Pitt's
India Act
1788 - Prussia,
England,
Netherlands,
Triple Alliance, to halt spread of the Russian Swedish War
1792 - French
Revolutionaries imprison the Royal
Family including Marie
Antoinette
1799 - English
fleet under Admiral Lord Seymour captures Suriname
1814 - Cape
of Good Hope formally ceded to England
by Netherlands
1814 - Anglo-Dutch
Treaty, ends transportation of slaves
1831 - Nat
Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1864 - American
Civil War battle at Deep
Bottom, Strawberry Plains, Fussell's Mill, VA,
1868 - Earthquakes
in Peru
& Ecuador
cause $300 million damages, 25,000 die
1876 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii
ratified
1876 - Wagner's
Of the Ring, premieres
1881 - Henry
Morton Stanley signs contract with the monarch of the Congo
1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1892 - US black newspaper Afro-American begins publishing
in Baltimore,
Maryland
1898 - US forces under George
Dewey capture Manila
during Spanish-American
War
1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville,
Texas
1907 - First New
York City taxicab goes into service
1914 - German
army occupies forts at Luik
(Liège) , Belgium
1914 - Carl Wickman starts Greyhound
Bus Lines in Minnesota,
first US bus line
1914 - France
declares war on Austria,
Hungary,
leading to WW
I
1919 - English
troops fire on demonstrators in Amritsar,
India,
350 die
1921 - Dulcy by George
S. Kaufman & Marc
Connelly, premieres in NYC
1923 - Gustav
Stresemann becomes Prime Minister of coalition government in
Germany
1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as
President
1923 - US
Steel Corporation initiates 8-hour work day
1932 - Hitler
refuses Von
Hindenburg's offer to be vice-chancellor
1937 - Japanese
attack Shanghai,
China
1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of City of San Francisco
1940 - German
air raids on South England, beginning of the Battle
of Britain
1940 - Goering's
Adler
Tag, 45-48 German aircraft shotdown over South-Engand
1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk,
Poland
1943 - Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1944 - British
8th Army occupies Florence,
Italy
1944 - Generals Montgomery,
Dempsey,
& Bradley
discuss Naderende breakthrough
1944 - The Jackie
Gleason, Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
1945 - Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in
Silesia,
35 die
1946 - England
transfers illegal immigrants bound for Palestine
to Cyprus
1950 - President
Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese
regime of Bao-Dai
1951 - England
& Iraq
sign oil contract
1953 - French
go on strike against economic reformation, 4-5 million participate
1953 - President
Eisenhower establishes Government
Contract Compliance Committee
1953 - US General
Omar Bradley's becomes Chief
of Staff
1956 - WBIR TV
CBS Channel 10 in Knoxville,
Tennessee
begins broadcasting
1959 - Military satellite Discoverer
5 launched into polar orbit
1960 - Central
African Republic & Chad
declare independence from France
1960 - USSR
pulls advisors out of China
1961 - Construction of Berlin
Wall begins, creating East and
West Berlin
1963 - Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte
Museum
1964 - First broadcast of Trans
World Radio on Bonaire
1967 - WQLN TV
PBS Channel 54, Erie,
Pennsylvania,
begins broadcasting
1971 - Paul
& Linda
McCartney release Back Seat of My Car
1977 - Space
Shuttle performs first test glide
1977 - Randy
Bachman quits BTO,
group disbands
1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut,
Lebanon,
175 die
1980 - Suriname
President Johan Ferrier ousted
1981 - Last episode of The
Waltons airs on CBS-TV
1984 - Morocco
& Libya
sign Arabic-African Union Treaty
1989 - Hot-air balloons collide at Alice
Springs, Australia,
13 die
1991 - Vice-President, Dan
Quayle makes speech attacking lawyers
1993 - Hotel in Nakhon
Ratchasima, Thailand,
collapses, 114 die
1993 - US Court
of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1994 - Train crash in Tbilisi,
Georgia,
24 die
1996 - Microsoft
releases Internet Explorer 3.0
Births
1422 - William
Caxton, 1st English
printer; Histories of Troy
1655 - Johann
Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet
1692 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
1704 - Lorenzo Fago, Naples,
Italy,
composer; Requium Mass for Ten Voices
1717 - Christoph Nichelsmann, Germany,
composer
1721 - Francis Ireland, composer
1747 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, Brussels,
Belgium,
composer; Missa de Requium
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary,
poet; Faust, Die Albigenser
1814 - Anders
Jonas Angstrom, Sweden,
physicist; spectroscope,
Angstrom
unit
1817 - Karoly Thern, Hungary,
composer; violin
1818 - Lucy
Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist, founding member of Woman's
Suffrage Association
1819 - George
Gabriel Stokes, physicist, mathematician; spectroscope
1820 - Sir
George Grove, London,
England,
biblical scholar, musicographer
1820 - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, aka Pauwels Foreestier, poet; Dietsche
Warande
1826 - William Thomas Best, Carlisle,
England,
composer, organist
1831 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
1840 - Giovanni
Verga, Italy,
writer; Eros
1860 - Annie
Oakley, Drake, Ohio,
frontierswoman, Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show
1867 - Rudolf Georg Binding, Germany,
songwriter, writer; Legenden Der Zeit
1867 - Sir
William A Craigie, Scotland,
lexicographer; Skotlands Rimur
1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Russia,
composer, conductor; Fugue in E flat minor
1879 - John
N. Ireland, England,
composer, pianist; Mai-Dun
1884 - Jo van Ammers-Koller, playwright; Rebellions
1886 - Jacob
Pierneef, South
Africa, painter
1888 - John
Logie Baird, Scotland,
inventor; father of TV
1890 - Lavinia Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia
1894 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, Siberia,
Russia,
composer
1895 - Bert
Lahr, aka Irving Lahrheim, comic actor; Lion-Wizard of Oz
1895 - Robert
Burton, actor; Dr Gordon-Kings Row
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock,
London,
director; Psycho, Birds, Rear Window
1901 - Ian Whyte, composer
1902 - Albertus J. Wijstma, aka Bartoes, cabaret performer,
comic
1902 - Felix
Wankel, Germany,
inventor; Wankel rotary-piston engine
1902 - Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president; J
Sansbury Grocery Stores
1902 - Regis
Toomey, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
actor; Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction
1903 - Wilton
Graff, St.
Louis, Missouri,
actor; Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn
1904 - Charles
Buddy Rogers, Olathe,
Kansas,
actor; Wings
1907 - Alfred
Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen,
Germany,
founder Krupp
Steel, arms manufacturer
1908 - Gene
Raymond, NYC,
actor; Paris
7000, Fireside Theater
1909 - John
Beal, Joplin,
MO,
actor; 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D
1912 - Jan
Peeters, Netherlands,
water colors painter/monumental artist
1912 - Max Croiset, playwright, director, actor; Dog of Flanders,
Little Ark
1912 - Metten Koornstra, Netherlands,
painter, graphic artist
1912 - Rita
Johnson, Worcester,
Massachusetts,
actor; Honolulu, All Mine to Give
1912 - Salvador
E. Luria, Italy,
biologist; Nobel
Prize 1969
1913 - Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatiryov, Russia,
composer
1913 - Francisco Escudero, San
Sebastian, Spain,
composer
1913 - Makarios
III, aka Michail Moeskos, archbishop, President of Cyprus
1914 - Richard
Basehart, actor; Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
1918 - Frederick
Sanger, England,
biochemist; Nobel
1958, 1980
1919 - Rex
Humbard, televanglist
1920 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist
1920 - George
Shearing, London,
blind pianist/composer; Lullabye of Byrdland
1921 - Neville
Brand, Kewanee,
Illinois,
actor; DOA, Eaten Alive, Fire, Mohawk
1925 - Benny
Bailey, jazz trumpeter
1926 - Fidel
Castro Ruz, Mayari Oriente, Cuba,
dictator (1959- )
1929 - Augustyn Bloch, Grudziadz, Poland,
organist, composer; music for clarinet
1929 - Pat
Harrington Jr, NYC,
actor; Danny Thomas Show, One Day at a Time
1930 - Don Ho,
Hawaii,
ukulele player, singer; Tiny Bubbles
1930 - Heino Jurisalu, Estonia,
composer; Three Serenades for Chamber Orchestra
1931 - Bernard
Manning, England,
comedian
1933 - Jocelyn
Elders, US
Surgeon General (1993-94)
1933 - Madhur
Jaffrey, cookbook writer, actor; Shakespeare Wallah
1934 - Leifur Thorarinsson, Iceland,
composer; Violin Concertos
1935 - Rod
Hull, entertainer, ventrilloquist; Emu
1939 - Saul
Steinberg, artist; The Art of Living
1940 - Ann
Armstrong Dailey, founder, Children's
Hospice International
1942 - Sheila
Armstrong, Ashington,
Northumberland,
England,
soprano; Dido and Aeneas
1943 - Susan
Jameson, actor; Secret World of Polly Flint
1944 - David Mahler, avante-garde composer
1944 - Kevin
Tighe, Los
Angeles, actor; Newsie, Another 48 Hours, K-9
1947 - Gretchen
Corbett, Camp Sherman, Oregon,
actror; Beth-Rockford Files
1948 - Kathleen
Battle, Portsmouth,
Ohio,
soprano; Shephard-Tannheuser
1948 - Mosiuoa
Patrick Terror Lekota, South
Africa, leader, UDF, ANC
1948 - Tony Santini, singer; Sha
Na Na
1949 - Sheralee, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida,
singer; Your Hit Parade
1950 - Andre
van den Berg, actor, director; Transport
1951 - Dan
Fogelberg, Peoria,
Illinois,
singer; Run for the Roses
1951 - Jeff
Altman, comedian, actor; Nurses, Pink Lady, Soul Man
1952 - Marie
Helvin, model, actress; Children
1953 - Jimmy
McCulloch, musician; Thunderclap
Newman
1958 - Feargal
Sharkey, guitarist; Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart
1959 - Danny
Bonaduce, actor; Danny-Partridge Family
1959 - Mark
Nevin, musician; Fairground Attraction-Find My Love
1961 - Dawnn
Lewis, actor; Jaleesa-Different World
1963 - Pamela Jean Stein, Syracuse,
NY,
Playboy Playmate; November, 1987
1963 - Tigg Ketler, Chula
Vista, CA,
drummer; Bang
Tango-Dancin' on Coals
1964 - Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker; Europe-The
Final Countdown
1967 - Quinn
Cummings, Los
Angeles, actor; Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl
Deaths
0587 - Radegundis,
daughter of Thuringian
King Berthar
0662 - Maximus
Confessor, Greece,
theologist, Crusader
0900 - Zwentibold,
King of Lotharingia,
895-900, in battle at 29
1134 - Byzantine
Empress Irene aka St. Irene
1191 - Philips
van Heinsberg,
archbishop of Cologne
(Koln)
1278 - Daikaku, Zen
teacher Rinzai line, head of Kenchoji
School, in Japan
at 65
1674 - Lars Johnstown, aka Lasse Lucidor, Sweden,
poet, at 35
1667 - Jeremy
Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Ireland
1762 - John Alberti, theologist, philological, at 64
1808 - Henri Hardouin, France,
composer of Pastorales, at 81
1841 - Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, Dinklage,
Germany,
cellist, composer for violin
& cello,
at 73
1860 - Danillo
II, ruler of Montenegro
1886 - Adolf von Doss, composer, at 62
1895 - Christian B. Freiherr von Tauchnitz, Germany,
publisher; T Edition
1896 - John
Everett Millais, England,
painter, at 67
1908 - Ira
D. Sankey, evangelist, composer, singer of Gospel Hymns, at 67
1910 - Florence
Nightingale, England,
nurse, at 90
1912 - Jules
E. F. Massenet, France,
opera composer; Werther, Manon, at 70
1916 - Fritz Steinbach, Cologne
(Koln), Germany,
conductor/composer, dies at 61
1924 - Julian Aguirre, Argentina,
composer; Confidencias De Amor, dies at 56
1927 - James
Curwood, journalist, writer; Valley of Silent Men, at 49
1928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, Paris,
France,
composer; Sonate No 2 for Organ, at 74
1933 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, Paris,
France,
cello
composer, at 80
1940 - George
C. Pearce, actor; Hold that Lion, British Agent, at 75
1946 - Herbert
George, [HG] Wells, sci-fi author; Time Machine, at 79
1946 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, ballet
composer; Don Quixote, at 33
1948 - Edwin
Maxwell, actor; The Devil and Miss Jones, at 62
1953 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, at 80
1954 - Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, Germany,
musicologist, composer, at 71
1959 - Henry
Garat, actor; La Suzzane Chaste, at 57
1961 - Adeline
De Walt Reynolds, actor; Son of Dracula, at 78
1967 - Jane
Darwell, actor; Mary Poppins, heart attack at 87
1970 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, at 75
1971 - King
Curtis, aka Curtis Ousley, Fort
Worth, Texas,
musician; Having a Party, murdered at 37
1973 - Ben
van Eysselsteijn, Netherlands,
playwright; Arid Earth, at 75
1974 - Kate
O'Brien, Ireland, writer; Pray for the Wanderer, at 76
1975 - Max Lamberty, Flemish
sociologist; What is Culture?, dies at 81
1977 - Henry
Williamson, England,
author; Tarka the Otter
1982 - Charles
Walters, actor, choreographer, director; High Society,
at 70
1982 - Joe
E. Ross, comedian, actor; Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show,
at 77
1982 - Joe
Tex, aka Joseph Arrington Jr., singer; Getting Scarce,
at 49
1984 - Clyde
Cook, actor; Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven, at 92
1985 - Marion
Martin, actor; Dakota Lil, Lady of Burlesque, at 67
1986 - Helen
Mack, actor; The Son of Kong, Milky Way
1990 - Jimmy
Starr, actor; A Night of Crime, at 86
1991 - Jack Ryan, creator; Barbie
Doll, Hot
Wheels, at 65
1992 - Bill
Elverman, playwright, actor; After Hours, The Guiding
Light, at 40
1992 - David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
1992 - Jan Elburg, aka Joannes G, poet; Geen Letterheren
1994 - Manfred Werner, Gemany,
general, Secretary General of NATO,
1988-94, at 59
1995 - Alison
Hargreaves, mountaineer, at 33 on K2
1995 - Jesse
Babyface Thomas, Logansport,
Louisiana,
blues singer, at 84
1995 - Mickey Mantle,
baseball great; NY
Yankees, cancer at 63
1996 - David Tudor, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
avante-garde composer, at 70
1996 - W. Gordon Smith, playwright, at 67
Holidays & Observances
Tunisia:
International
Women's Day
Roman Catholic: Memorial of St.
Pontian, Pope, 230-235, martyr
Roman Catholic: Memorial of St.
Hippolytus of Rome, martyr
Roman Catholic: Commemoration of St.
Cassian, martyr, patron of stenographers
Christian: Commemoration of Jeremy
Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor & Dromore
Lutheran: Commemoration of Florence
Nightingale, Clara Maass
Chart Toppers
1948
It’s Magic - Doris
Day
Woody Woodpecker Song - The
Kay Kyser Orchestra
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret
Whiting
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy
Arnold
1956
My Prayer - The
Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis
Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris
Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny
Cash
1964
A Hard Day’s Night - The
Beatles
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean
Martin
Where Did Our Love Go - The
Supremes
Dang Me - Roger
Miller
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert
O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking
Glass
(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right - Luther
Ingram
Bless Your Heart - Freddie
Hart & The Heartbeats
1980
Magic - Olivia
Newton-John
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The
S.O.S. Band
Sailing - Christopher
Cross
Stand by Me - Mickey
Gilley
1988
Roll with It - Steve
Winwood
Hands to Heaven - Breathe
Make Me Lose Control - Eric
Carmen
Don’t Close Your Eyes - Keith
Whitley
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