13 August History


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  • 1630    -    Emperor Ferdinand II dismisses Albert Eusebius van Wallenstein, his most capable general.
  • 1680    -    War starts when the Spanish are expelled from Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Indians under Chief Pope.
  • 1704    -    The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeat the French Army at the Battle of Blenheim.
  • 1787    -    The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
  • 1862    -    Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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  • 1881    -    The first African-American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 1889    -    The first coin-operated telephone is patented by William Gray.
  • 1892    -    The first issue of the Afro American newspaper is published in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1898    -    Manila, the capital of the Philippines, falls to the U.S. Army.
  • 1910    -    British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies.
  • 1932    -    Adolf Hitler refuses to serve as Franz Von Papen's vice chancellor.
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  • 1948    -    During the Berlin Airlift, the weather over Berlin becomes so stormy that American planes have their most difficult day landing supplies. They deem it 'Black Friday.'
  • 1963    -    A 17 year-old Buddhist monk burns himself to death in Saigon, South Vietnam.
  • 1989    -    The wreckage of a plane that carried U.S. congressman Mickey Leland and others on a humanitarian mission is found on a mountain side in Ethiopia; there are no survivors.

  • 13 August Birthdays

  • 1655    -    Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet.
  • 1818    -    Lucy Stone, woman's rights activist, founder of Woman's Journal.
  • 1860    -    Phoebe Anne Moses, later known as Annie Oakley, a sharpshooter and entertainer.
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  • 1899    -    Alfred Hitchcock, director of over 50 films including Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest.
  • 1902    -    Felix Wankel, inventory of the rotary engine which bears his name.
  • 1912    -    Ben Hogan, American golfer.
  • 1916    -    Daniel Schorr, radio and television correspondent.
  • 1926    -    Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary leader and president.