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On this day: August 13

POSTED: 11:42 PM Aug 09 2012 UPDATED: 12:00 AM Aug 13 2012

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Disney brings an animated deer to movie screens, construction begins on the Berlin Wall, a Hall of Fame slugger dies and tragedy strikes the Indiana State Fair, all on this day.

OTD August 13 - Tenochtitlan — 1 / 27

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1521: Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) and its leader Cuauhtémoc fall to conquistador Hernán Cortés after 80 days of continuous urban warfare against the Spanish. From 1521 to 1524, Cortés personally governed Mexico.

OTD August 13 - Tenochtitlan

OTD August 13 - Louis XVI

OTD August 13 - Arica earthquake

OTD August 13 - 433 Eros

OTD August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock

OTD August 13 - Florence Nightingale

OTD August 13 - Opha Mae Johnson

OTD August 13 - Fidel Castro

OTD August 13 - Don Ho

OTD August 13 - L'il Abner

OTD August 13 - Bambi

OTD August 13 - HG Wells

OTD August 13 - Danny Bonaduce

OTD August 13 - Berlin Wall

OTD August 13 - Jefferson Airplane

OTD August 13 - Bonnie and Clyde

OTD August 13 - Apollo 11 parade

OTD August 13 - Rosemount Horizon

OTD August 13 - Lou Brock

OTD August 13 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

OTD August 13 - Mickey Mantle

OTD August 13 - Hurricane Charley

OTD August 13 - Julia Child

OTD August 13 - Athens Olympics

OTD August 13 - Tropic Thunder

OTD August 13 - Les Paul

OTD August 13 - stage collapse

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