August 13 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 13
In the headlines today:

1995	Baseball great Mickey Mantle dies of liver cancer in Dallas, Texas, at age 63.
1961	A barbed-wire fence is erected to divide the German city of Berlin.
1960	The first two-way telephone conversation via satellite is made.
1946	Author H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds) dies in London.
1942	Walt Disney's animated classic, Bambi, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
1934	Al Capp's hillbilly comic strip, Li’l Abner, appears in newspapers for the first time.
1919	The celebrated racehorse Man O'War loses his only race. He went on to compile a list of over 1300 vistories.
1910	Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale dies in London, at age 90.
1889	William Gray receives a US patent for his coin operated, pay telephone, or payphone.
1844	New Jersey adopts its state constitution.
1784	The US Congress meets in Annapolis, MD, for the last time before moving to Philadelphia.
1521	Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez sacks the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City).