Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
August 13
| 1630 | Emperor Ferdinand II dismisses Albert Eusebius van Wallenstein, his most capable general. | |
| 1680 | War starts when the Spanish are expelled from Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Indians under Chief Pope. | |
| 1704 | The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeat the French Army at the Battle of Blenheim. | |
| 1787 | The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. | |
| 1881 | The first African-American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| 1889 | The first coin-operated telephone is patented by William Gray. | |
| 1892 | The first issue of the Afro American newspaper is published in Baltimore, Maryland. | |
| 1898 | Manila, the capital of the Philippines, falls to the U.S. Army. | |
| 1910 | British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies. | |
| 1932 | Adolf Hitler refuses to serve as Franz Von Papen's vice chancellor. | |
| 1948 | During the Berlin Airlift, the weather over Berlin becomes so stormy that American planes have their most difficult day landing supplies. They deem it 'Black Friday.' | |
| 1963 | A 17 year-old Buddhist monk burns himself to death in Saigon, South Vietnam. | |
| 1989 | The wreckage of a plane that carried U.S. congressman Mickey Leland and others on a humanitarian mission is found on a mountain side in Ethiopia; there are no survivors. | |
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Born on August 13 |
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| 1655 | Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet. | |
| 1818 | Lucy Stone, woman's rights activist, founder of Woman's Journal. | |
| 1860 | Phoebe Anne Moses, later known as Annie Oakley, a sharpshooter and entertainer. | |
| 1899 | Alfred Hitchcock, director of over 50 films including Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest. | |
| 1902 | Felix Wankel, inventory of the rotary engine which bears his name. | |
| 1912 | Ben Hogan, American golfer. | |
| 1916 | Daniel Schorr, radio and television correspondent. | |
| 1926 | Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary leader and president. | |
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