Historical Events In August - 13

1945  On August - 13 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia  

1946  Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus on this day in history.  

1946  On this day in history h[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79  

1947  On August - 13 johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies  

1948  Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his first major league complete game on August - 13.  

1948  On August - 13 satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game  

1948  Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62 on August - 13.  

1950  Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship on this day in history.  

1951  On this day in history great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract  

1953  On August - 13 pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee  

1953  On August - 13 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations  

1953  On August - 13 dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80  

1954  21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470) on this day in history.  

1954  On August - 13 hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71  

1955  On August - 13 the opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland  

1955  On this day in history larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield  

1956  On August - 13 wBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting  

1956  On this day in history harry Donnan, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies  

1958  Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 on August - 13.  

1959  On August - 13 milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)  

1959  Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1960  On this day in history central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France  

1961  Border between east and west Berlin sealed off by East Germans on this day in history.  

1961  On August - 13 construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)  

1961  Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany on this day in history.  

1961  On August - 13 adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78  

1962  On August - 13 bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously  

1963  On this day in history custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum  

1964  On August - 13 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire  

1967  On August - 13 in the Pyrenees a 5.3 quake resulted in numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured  

1967  On August - 13 wQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting  

1967  On August - 13 jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87  

1970  Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1971  On this day in history paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"  

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0582  On August - 13 birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)  

1311  On August - 13 birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)  

1422  On this day in history birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)  

1584  On this day in history birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)  

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on August - 13.  

1625  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on August - 13.  

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.  

1662  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) was born on August - 13.  

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on this day in history.  

0587  On August - 13 radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies  

0662  On August - 13 maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies  

0900  On this day in history zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29  

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on August - 13.  

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies  

1278  On August - 13 daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65  

1382  On August - 13 death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)