Events 1521 - Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Fernando Cortes 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians. 1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations. 1942 - Walt Disney's animated cartoon "Bambi" premiers. 1960 - Central African Republic declares independence from France 1960 - Chad declares independence from France 1961 - German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to frustrate its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. Births 1422 - William Caxton, printer 1625 - Erasmus Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist († 1698) 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom 1818 - Lucy Stone, pioneering women's rights activist 1820 - Sir George Grove, author, Dictionary of Music and Musicians († 1900) 1823 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist († 1910) 1851 - Felix Adler, educator, founder of the Ethical Movement († 1933) 1860 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter († 1926) 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, industrialist († 1945) 1888 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer († 1946) 1895 - Bert Lahr, actor († 1967) 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, director († 1980) 1902 - Felix Wankel, engineer and inventor († 1988) 1904 - Charles (Buddy) Rogers, actor († 1999) 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, architect († 1976) 1912 - Salvador Luria, biologist; Nobel Prize, 1969 († 1991) 1912 - Ben Hogan, golf champion 1919 - George Shearing, musician 1920 - Neville Brand, actor († 1992) 1926 - Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician 1930 - Don Ho, musician 1933 - Doctor Jocelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General 1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant, baseball player 1948 - Kathleen Battle, opera singer 1949 - Bobby Clarke, ice hockey star 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, singer 1952 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor 1970 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player. 1972 - Antonio Martin, wikipedian Deaths 1863 - Eugene Delacroix, painter 1946 - H. G. Wells, writer 1964 - Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain. 1995 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Fame member 1996 - David Tudor, pianist and composer Holidays and observances Roman Empire - Vertumnalias in honor of Vertumnus See Also: August 12 - August 14 - July 13 - September 13 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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