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On This Day
August 13
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The Beatles: Unhappy with John Lennon's comments comparing the Beatles to Jesus, radio station KLUE in Longview, Texas organizes a Beatles Bonfire. Later that night, the station was struck by lightning. The station manager was knocked unconscious and the station had to temporarily shut down due to damaged equipment.
1965
Jefferson Airplane makes their first professional appearance, at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1961
Berlin Wall: East German Communists begin building a wall through the city to prevent the flow of people seeking the freedoms of the West.
1930
National Beet Grower's Association is incorporated.
1898
Spanish-American War: Fighting ends when the Philippines surrender to Admiral George Dewey.
1782
First Welsh immigrants to America arrive in Pennsylvania. They were Quakers and settled near Philadelphia. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1587
First American Indian converted to Protestantism is baptized into the Church of England.
1959
Danny Bonaduce, American actor, radio deejay. TV: The Partridge Family (Danny).
1951
Dan Fogelberg, American singer. Music: Longer (1979, #2) and Leader of the Band (1982).
1930
Don Ho, Hawaiian singer.
1929
Pat Harrington Jr., American Emmy-winning actor. TV: The Jack Paar Show (Guido Panzini) and One Day at a Time (handyman Dwayne Schneider).
1926
Fidel Castro, Cuban president. He was so opposed to capitalism that after conquering Cuba he ordered the destruction of all Monopoly games on the island.
1921 d. 1992
Neville Brand, actor. TV: Laredo (Ranger Reese Bennett) and The Untouchables (Al Capone).
1919
Rex Humbard, American televangelist, founder of the Cathedral of Tomorrow (1952). (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1899 d. 1980 |
Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British Oscar-winning director, "The Master of Suspense." Film: 1897 d. 1975
Detlev Wulf Bronk, American scientist, educator, "Father of Biophysics." He served as president of Johns Hopkins University (1949-53).
1895 d. 1967
Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim), American actor. Film: The Wizard of Oz (1939, the Cowardly Lion).
1888 d. 1946
John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, "Father of the Television." He gave the first demonstration of true TV in London (1926) and later patented a 3-D TV system (1944).
1860 d. 1926
Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee), American western performer, member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
1818 d. 1893
Lucy Stone, American woman's rights activist, abolitionist. She and her husband founded Woman's Journal (1870). She allowed her New Jersey property to be sold for non-payment of taxes, asserting that she was being taxed without representation.
1814 d. 1874
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist, for whom the angstrom (a unit of length equal to 10-10 meters) is named. He showed that hydrogen is present in the Sun's atmosphere (1862).
1655 d. 1607
Johann Christoph Denner, German woodwind instrument maker, invented the clarinet.
1422 d. 1491
William Caxton, the first English printer (1475).
1979 b. 1899
Walter Berndt, American cartoonist, creator of Smitty.
1946 b. 1866
H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells), English novelist, The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
1910 b. 1820
Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer. She contributed greatly to the development of modern hospital practices and the nursing profession.
1826 b. 1781
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope.
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