Historical Events In August - 13

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

1946  Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus on August - 13.   

1946  H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79 on August - 13.   

1947  Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies on August - 13.   

1948  On August - 13 satchel Paige at 42 pitches his first major league complete game   

1948  Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game on August - 13.   

1948  On this day in history edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62   

1950  On this day in history babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship   

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

1953  Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee on this day in history.   

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

1953  Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80 on August - 13.   

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

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  Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield on this day in history.   

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

1956  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

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

1959  Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57 on August - 13.   

1960  Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France on August - 13.   

1961  On this day in history border between east and west Berlin sealed off by East Germans   

1961  Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day) on August - 13.   

1961  On August - 13 construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany   

1961  Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

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

1963  Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum on August - 13.   

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

1967  On this day in history 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 this day in history jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87   

1970  Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75 on August - 13.   

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

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

1311  On this day in history 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 August - 13 birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on this day in history.   

1625  On August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

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

0586  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

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

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on August - 13.   

0900  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on August - 13.   

1134  On this day in history irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies   

1191  On this day in history 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)