Today in History for 13th August 2015Historical EventsEvents 1 - 100 of 1473114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Mayan calendar523 - St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope1099 - Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult andsubsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria, later known as the Malandanti.1415 - King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River1516 - The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claimto Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.1521 - Spanish conquistadors under Hernn Corts capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtmoc inTenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire1536 - Buddhist monks from Ky?to's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughoutKyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).1553 - Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.1578 - Duke Frans of Anjou recognized as protector of NetherlandsExplorer John Smith1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII1630 - Ferdinand II dismisses supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap1645 - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brmsebro1651 - Litchfield, CT, founded1695 - -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels1696 - State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor1704 - Battle of Blenheim (aka Second Battle of Hchstdt): a combined British, German & Dutcharmy led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, decisively beat French & Bavarian forces.1732 - Voltaire's "Zaire" premieres in Paris1740 - Hunger strike in RotterdamFrench Enlightenment Philosopher Voltaire1784 - British parliament accepts East India Company Act 1784, bringing the East India Company'srule in India under the control of the British Government.1788 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-SwedishWar of 1788-901792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette1799 - British fleet under Lord Seymour overthrows Suriname1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch1814 - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit collided with a fishing boat,sinks with 250 aboard1864 - Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)1876 - The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner'sRing CycleComposer Richard Wagner1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch1886 - John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing theEsquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore1898 - US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war1902 - England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas1906 - Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) byDodgers in 3rd inning1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)1908 - Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team1908 - Kind Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; theKing tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policiesMLB Pitcher Cy Young1910 - Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch1913 - Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England1914 - -14] German army occupies forts at Liege1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary1917 - Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves1917 - There is a revolt in Catalonia, the province in northeast Spain that has long seen itself asindependent.1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany1919 - British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India; killing 3501919 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)1920 - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio1921 - Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy" premieres in NYC1923 - Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of German coalition governmentPresident and founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatrk1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatrk Pasja as President1923 - US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day1928 - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins1931 - Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 61932 - Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany1932 - Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying1933 - 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee1933 - Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist1935 - Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)1937 - Japanese attack at the beinnging of the Battle of Shanghai during Second Sino-Japanese War.Involves nearly 1 million troops1939 - Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'Nazi Politician Hermann Goering1940 - Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over SouthernEngland (Battle of Britain)1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk1943 - Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk1944 - British 8th Army occupies Florence1944 - Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough1944 - Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio1946 - Britain diverts illegal emmigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus1948 - Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship1950 - US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai1951 - Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract1953 - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower1953 - US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee1953 - US General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of staff1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)1955 - Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield1956 - WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting1958 - Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings,Detroit 3, Cleveland 21959 - US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France1960 - USSR withdraws advisors from China1960 - The first two-way conversation via satellite is undertaken using Echo 11961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open1962 - Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously1963 - US Customs agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas1963 - Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,3821964 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire1967 - WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting1969 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-01969 - Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote1970 - Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leafletsexplode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South AfricaFamous BirthdaysBirthdays 1 - 100 of 233582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop andsaint (d. 640)1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon(d. 1350)1422 - William Caxton, 1st English printer(Histories of Troy)1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl ofSuffolk, English politician (d. 1640)1617 - Johann A Quenstedt, GermanLutherian theologist1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danishphysician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)1692 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer1700 - Heinrich, count von Brhl, German statesman (d. 1763)1704 - Lorenzo Fago, composer1717 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer1717 - Louis Franois I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)1721 - Francis Ireland, composer1747 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer1748 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)1814 - Anders Jonas ngstrm, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)1817 - Karoly Thern, composer1818 - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)1820 - George Grove, biblical scholar/misicographer, born in London, England1820 - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)1826 - William Thomas Best, composer1831 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer1841 - Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)1851 - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), (d. 1937)1851 - Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley (1860)1860 - Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West),(d. 1926)1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)1867 - Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)1867 - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur)1871 - Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)1872 - Richard Willsttter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer1878 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist1879 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)1881 - Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author1884 - Harry Dean, England cricketer (d. 1957)1886 - Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)1888 - John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)1890 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, African American advocate in Virginia1894 - Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director1894 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer1895 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)1895 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)1896 - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor1898 - Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)Director Alfred Hitchcock (1899)1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, Leytonstone Essex, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)1901 - Ian Whyte, composer1902 - Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic1902 - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)1902 - Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)1902 - Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)1903 - Wilton Graff, St Louis MO, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn)1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Olathe KS, actor (Wings)1907 - Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)1908 - Gene Raymond, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater), born in NYC, New York1909 - John Beal, Joplin MO, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D)1909 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, US 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932)1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)Golfer Ben Hogan (1912)1912 - Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)1912 - Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist1912 - Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark)1912 - Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist1912 - Rita Johnson, Worcester Mass, actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give)1912 - Salvador E Luria, Italian/US biologist (Nobel prize 1969)1913 - Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatiryov, composer1913 - Francisco Escudero, composer1913 - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent1913 - Lord Oram, British MP (Labour)1913 - Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)1918 - Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal1918 - Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)1918 - John Bunting, senior civil servant1919 - Rex Humbard, televanglist1920 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist1920 - George Shearing, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland), born in London, England1920 - Neville Brand, Griswold, Iowa, American actor (DOA, Eaten Alive)1921 - Jimmy McCracklin, St. Louis, Missouri, blues musician, (d. 2012)1924 - John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)1925 - Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter1925 - Leslie Joseph, QCCuban President Fidel Castro (1926)1926 - Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008)1929 - Augustyn Bloch, composer1929 - Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)1929 - Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)Famous WeddingsWeddings 1 - 6 of 6Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier (1868)1868 - Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier (26) weds Zo Lafontaine (27) in Montreal, Canada1943 - Evangelist Billy Graham (24) weds philanthropist Ruth Bell (23) in Monreat, North Carolina1980 - Actor James Woods (33) weds costume designer Kathryn Morrison1988 - Musician Robert Smith (29) weds Mary Poole in UK1994 - Former "Growing Pains" patriarch actor Alan Thicke (48) weds former Miss World Gina MarieTolleson (25) at his rolling Santa Barbara ranch2011 - "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd (44) weds TV writer Lamar Sally at the Fairmont Hotel inChicago, IllinoisFamous DeathsDeaths 1 - 100 of 116586 - St. Radegund, Frankish princess, wife of Clotaire I and founder of the Convent of Our Lady ofPoitiers.662 - Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies900 - Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 291134 - Irene of Hungary [Piroska], Byzantine empress, dies at 461191 - Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies1278 - Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 651382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)1637 - Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)1674 - Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 351686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)1749 - J E Schlegel, writer, dies1762 - John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 641787 - Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies1808 - Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 811826 - Ren Lannec, French physician (b. 1781)1841 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies1860 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies1863 - Eugne Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 471886 - Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 621895 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies1896 - John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 671897 - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 631908 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67Nurse Florence Nightingale (1910)1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 901912 - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 701913 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies1916 - Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 611924 - Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 561927 - James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 491928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 741933 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 801937 - Arthur Plunkett, English civil engineer (b. 1890)1940 - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 751946 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 791946 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 331946 - H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 791947 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, diesAuthor H. G. Wells (1946)1948 - Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 621948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)1953 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 801954 - Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 711956 - Harry Donnan, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)1959 - Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 571961 - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 781964 - Peter Anthony Allen is the last person executed (for murder) in England and United Kingdomat Walton Prison, Liverpool1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)1967 - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 871970 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 751971 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US musician, murdered at 371972 - George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies at 781973 - Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 751974 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for England), dies1974 - Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 761977 - Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies1982 - Charles Walters, US actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 701982 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 771982 - Joe Tex, [Joseph Arrington Jr], singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 491982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)1984 - Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 921985 - Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 671986 - Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies1987 - Vincent Persichetti, US composer (Sibyl), dies at 721988 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 881989 - Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS1989 - Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944)1990 - Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 861991 - Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 651992 - Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 401992 - Clifford Allison, US stock-car racer, dies in an accident1992 - David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia1992 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies1994 - Manfred Worner, German general/sec-gen of NATO (1988-94), dies at 591995 - Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 331995 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle (1995)1995 - Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 631995 - Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 811995 - Jan K?esadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)1996 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 861996 - Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies1996 - Christopher John Gray, priest, dies at 421996 - David Randall, priest, dies at 491996 - David Tudor, composer, dies at 701996 - Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 461996 - W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 671998 - Julien Green, American novelist (b. 1900)1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)1999 - Jaime Garzn, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)2000 - Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965)2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)Share on Facebookhttp://www.onthisday.com/day/august/13