Saturday, August 13, 2022

History for August 13

History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Alfred Hitchcock 1899
  • 1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.
  • 1792 - French revolutionaries took the entire French royal family and imprisoned them.
  • 1846 - The American Flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles, CA.
  • 1912 - The first experimental radio license was issued to St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA.
  • 1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.
  • 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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