08-13-2006, 05:43 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 13th
1521 ~ Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) fell to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1860 ~ Birthday of Annie Oakley, Sharpshooter.
1899 ~ Birthday of Alfred Hitchcock, Director.
1942 ~ Walt Disney's animated cartoon Bambi premiered.
1946 ~ Death of H. G. Wells, Writer.
1948 ~ Birthday of Kathleen Battle, Opera Singer.
1961 ~ The Berlin Wall began to be built.
1966 ~ Beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution.
1997 ~ The popular, controversial animated series South Park debuted.
2003 ~ Libya agreed to set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
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