Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 13

St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1099: Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
1415: King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
1516: Kings Charles I & Fran‡ois I signs Treaty of Noyons
1521: Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
1578: Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1608: John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1624: Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1630: Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
1642: Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1645: Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Br”msebro
1651: Litchfield, CT founded
1695: -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
1696: State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
1704: Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
1704: French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German &
1713: King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
1732: Voltaire's Za‹re, premieres in Paris
1740: Hunger strike in Rotterdam
1784: English parliament accept India Act
1788: Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent
1788: spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1792: Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1799: English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
1814: Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1814: Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
1831: Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1847: J R Hind discovers asteroid #7 Iris
1861: R Luther discovers asteroid #71 Niobe
1864: Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
1868: Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876: Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1876: Wagner's Of the Ring, premieres
1881: Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
1889: William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1892: US black newspaper Afro-American begins publishing from Baltimore
1898: G Witt discovers asteroid #433 Eros
1898: US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
1902: England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
1906: (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
1906: Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906: Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games
1907: 1st taxicab (NYC)
1908: Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
1910: assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
1910: Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12
1914: -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1914: Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1914: France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
1917: Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
1919: British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1919: Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1921: Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's Dulcy, premieres in NYC
1923: Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
1923: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1026 Ingrid
1923: Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
1923: US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1925: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1060 Magnolia
1928: Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1931: Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
1932: Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
1932: Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1933: Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1935: Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
1936: G Neujmin discovers asteroids #1403 Idelsonia & #2166 Handahl
1937: Japanese attack Shanghai
1939: Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
1939: which fell into Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
1939: Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
1940: Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1940: Gring's Adler Tag 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
1941: Red army evacuates Smolensk
1943: Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1944: British 8th army occupies Florence
1944: Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
1944: Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
1945: 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
1946: Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
1948: Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1950: Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1951: Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
1953: 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1953: Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
1953: US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
1954: 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 outfield
1956: WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958: hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
1958: Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut,
1959: Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1960: Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1960: USSR draws adviseors out of China
1961: Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1962: Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
1963: Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1963: Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1964: 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1966: T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2754
1967: WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969: Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1969: Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
1971: Paul & Linda McCartney release Back Seat of My Car
1972: Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last Bonanza
1977: 1st test glide of shuttle
1977: Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband
1978: & thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
1978: Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
1978: Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted
1979: Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1980: Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
1980: Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1981: Last broadcast of Waltons on CBS-TV
1981: Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
1983: E Bowell discovers asteroid #4528 Berg
1984: Morocco & Libya sign Arabic-African Union treaty
1985: #4935 Maslachkova & #5252 Vikrymov
1985: N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #4280 Simonenko, #4786 Tatianina,
1986: KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1986: L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #5055 Opekushin
1987: Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5« jump
1988: Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
1988: C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #4379 Snelling
1988: C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #4707 Khryses
1988: Elst discovers asteroid #3918 Brel, #5471 Tunguska & #6549 Skryabin
1988: F Borngen discovers asteroid #4347 Reger & #5866 Sachsen
1988: from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1988: Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
1988: Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada
1988: US beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989: 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
1989: US space shuttle STS-28 lands
1991: Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
1991: VP Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
1993: Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
1993: Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
1993: US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1994: Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
1996: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
1997: Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
1997: L Tesi & G Cattani discover asteroid #8051
1997: SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
2002: 12 militants were gunned down by police.
2002: 4 including 2 militants were killed while 22 injured in a bomb blast
2002: President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Azad visits Bhuj and Kutch areas which were effected with earth quake last year.
2002: Trinamool says it will not be a part of NDA though it extends support to the current Government.
2002: USA closes its American Center in Pakistan - Warns US Citizens to be away from Pakistan.

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