History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Annie Oakley 1860, Bert Lahr 1895, Alfred Hitchcock 1899
Ben Hogan 1912, Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader, Joycelyn Elders 1933
1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.
1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.
1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."
1934 - Al Capp's comic strip "L'il Abner" made its debut in newspapers.
1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY.
1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
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