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Birthdates which occurred on August 13:
1422 William Caxton 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1655 Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1814 Anders Jonas Angstrom Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
1818 Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights
1819 Sir George Gabriel Stokes physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope)
1820 Sir George Grove London, England, biblical scholar/musicologist
1860 Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
1888 John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1895 Robert Burton actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
1898 Jean Borota France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
1902 Felix Wankel Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 Regis Toomey Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
1904 Charles "Buddy" Rogers actor (Wings)
1907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1908 Gene Raymond NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1909 John Beal actor (Amityville 3D)
1912 Ben Hogan Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 Rita Johnson Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
1918 Frederick Sanger England, chemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
1919 Rex Humbard televanglist
1920 George Shearing London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1921 Neville Brand actor (Cahill, US Marshal)
1927 Fidel Castro Ruz Cuban political leader (1959- )
1929 Pat Harrington Jr NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
1930 Don Ho Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
1931 Norman Read NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Gary Davidson founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
1939 Saul Steinberg artist (The Art of Living)
1942 Robert L Stewart Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
1943 Gary Ilman US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
1947 Gretchen Corbett Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
1948 Kathleen Battle Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannh„user)
1949 Bobby Clarke Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyers)
1949 Sheralee Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
195- Kavi Raz India, actor (VJ Kochar-St Elsewhere)
1951 Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1955 Betsy King LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women's Open)
1958 Feargal Sharkey rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
1959 Danny Bonaduce actor (Danny-Partridge Family) (1959 approx)
1959 Mark Nevin rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1961 Dawnn Lewis actress (Jaleesa-Different World)
1963 Pamela Jean Stein Syracuse NY, playmate (Nov, 1987)
1963 Tigg Ketler Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1964 Ian Haughland heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1967 Quinn Cummings LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)

Deaths which occurred on August 13:
867 Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67)
1321 Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy)
1598 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1946 H G Wells, sci-fi author
1972 George Wiess Yankee GM, dies
1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH,
1982 Charles Walters director, dies at 68
1982 Joe E Ross comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
1984 Clyde Cook actor, dies in his sleep at 92
1985 Marion Martin actress, dies at 67
1988 Otto E Passman (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
1989 Tim Richmond race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1991 Jack Ryan inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 GOLLAHON GENE R. CINCINNATI OH.
[EXPLODE CRASH NO PARA BEEP]
1965 MELLOR FREDRIC M. CRANSTON RI.
1965 THOMAS HARRY E. TAFT CA.
[HVY AA CRASH, REMAINS IDENTIFIED 10/30/96]
1966 DEVERS DAVID RONALD SR. PAULDING OH.
[12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1966 O'NEIL JOHN JOSEPH JR PROVIDENCE RI.
[12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1967 GOODERMOTE WAYNE K. TROY NY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 HYATT LEO G. SALEM NH.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1969 HANSEN LESTER A. PUEBLO CO.
1972 GAUNTT WILLIAM A. MT PLEASANT TX.
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG]
1972 TOWNSEND FRANCIS W. RUSK TX.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
523 St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1521 Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs
1642 Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1651 Litchfield, CT founded
1704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1869 Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1892 Baltimore Afro-American forms
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906 Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by the Dodgers in the 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 passed ball & 1 hit by pitch
1917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against the Braves
1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1923 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey
1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1935 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
1939 Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
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
1953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
1960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1963 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1969 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1969 Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
1971 Paul & Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"
1977 1st test glide of the shuttle
1978 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
1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
1980 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
1988 US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
World Left-handers Day
Psychic Month
Romance Awareness Month
Tunisia : International Women's Day
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Yukon : Klondike Gold Day (1896) - - - - - ( Friday )
Scotland : Fisherman's Walk Day

Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of St Pontian, pope (230-235), martyr (opt)
RC : Memorial of St Hippolytus, martyr (opt)
RC : Commemoration of St Cassian, martyr, patron of stenographers
Ch : Commemoration of Jeremy Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor & Dromore
Luth : Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Clara Maass

Religious History
1587 In Roanoke, Virginia, Manteo became the first American Indian converted to Protestantism, and was baptized into the Church of England by members of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to the New World.
1682 The first Welsh immigrants to the American colonies arrived in Pennsylvania. They were Quakers, and settled near modern Philadelphia.
1727 In the German village of Herrnhut, religious reformer Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, 27, organized a group of Bohemian Protestant refugees into the first Moravian community of "Unitas Fratrum" (united brotherhood).
1908 Death of Ira D. Sankey, 68. He was Dwight Moody's song evangelist from 1870. During their revival crusades, Sankey penned many hymn tunes, of which the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory").
1919 Birth of Rex Humbard, pioneer radio and television evangelist. In 1958 Humbard established the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio, from which he afterward based his television ministry.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Some men are discovered; others are found out."

You might be in the army if...
you refer to your son as Boy, Steven Type, 1 Each.

Murphys Law of the day...(Computers Laws)
No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.

Cliff Clavin says, it's a little known fact that...
The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BC.