08-12-2012, 07:31 PM
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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.
1910 ~ Death of Florence Nightingale, English nurse.
1942 ~ Walt Disney's animated cartoon "Bambi" premiered.
1946 ~ Death of H. G. Wells, Writer.
1961 ~ The Berlin Wall began to be built.
1966 ~ Beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution.
1984 ~ Death of Tigran Petrosian, Soviet chess player.
1997 ~ The popular, controversial animated series "South Park" debuted.
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