I was born on Friday August 13th
Highlights in History Which Occur August 13
523 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 Mexico City from Aztecs
1578 Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1624 French cardinal Richelieu becomes chairman of Royal Council
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 Battle at Blenheim: English/Dutch/Prussian Great Alliance beats
French/Beiers army; 31,000 killed or injured
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
1799 English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
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 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
and Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
1892 US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1898 G Witt discovers asteroid #433 Eros
and US troops occupy Manila
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
and Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games
(187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
1907 1st taxicab (NYC)
1910 Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12
assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
1914 -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
and Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1920 Ted Ray wins golf's US Open
1921 Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
1923 Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalitiongovt
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1026 Ingrid
and Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
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 Hindenburgs proposal to become vice-chancellor
and Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1933 Gene Sarazen wins PGA title
and 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 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
and which fell into Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
1940 Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
and G”ring'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
and Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
and 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
and Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
and US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
1956 WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut,
hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
1959 Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
and USSR draws adviseors out of China
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
and 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
and Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
1971 Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
1972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
1977 1st test glide of shuttle
1978 Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
and Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted
& thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
1979 Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1980 Suriname president Johan Ferrier flees
and Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1981 Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
and Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
1984 Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1987 Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5«" jump
1988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
and US beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada
and from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1989 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
and US space shuttle STS-28 lands
1991 Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
1993 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
and Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
and US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1994 Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
1868 Series of quakes kills 25,000 & causes $300 million damages
in areas of Arequipa, Tacna, & Chincha. (Peru & Equador)
1939 Sabotage was suspected in the crash of the 'City of San Francisco'
which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)