Today is Tuesday, August thirteenth, the 226th day of the yr 2024. There are 140 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On August 13, 1961, the so-called Barbed Wire Sunday, the GDR sealed the border between Berlin's eastern and western sectors and subsequently built the wall that may divide the town for the subsequent 28 years.
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In 1521, the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez conquered Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN'), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
In 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for the primary pay telephone.
In 1918, Opha May Johnson became the primary woman to hitch the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1952, Big Mama Thornton recorded the song “Hound Dog” for the primary time, 4 years before Elvis Presley’s famous version was released.
In 1969, New York City hosted a ticket parade for Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins.
In 1995, Mickey Mantle, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, died on the age of 63 in a Dallas hospital from rapidly progressing liver cancer.
In 2011, seven people were killed when A stage collapsed on the Indiana State Fair during a violent storm shortly before the beginning of a concert.
In 2020, President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network: recognized that he takes money away from the US Postal Service to make it tougher for it to process the expected flood of mail-in votes.
Today's birthdays:
- Former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is 91.
- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is 78.
- Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 76.
- Tightrope artist Philippe Petit is 75.
- Bobby Clarke, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, is 75.
- Betsy King, a member of the Golf Hall of Fame, is 69.
- Film director Paul Greengrass is 69.
- Actor Danny Bonaduce is 65.
- TV weatherman Sam Champion is 63.
- Actress Dawnn Lewis is 63.
- Actor John Slattery is 62.
- Actress Debi Mazar is 60.
- Figure skater Midori Ito is 55.
- Country singer Andy Griggs is 51.
- White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is 50.
- Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is 42.
- Actor Sebastian Stan is 42.
- Actor Lennon Stella is 25.
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