Daily Calendar for August 13th, 2019

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1420s

• Born 1422: William Caxton (printer)

1530s

• 1535: "Canada" first used to indicate region

1810s

• Born 1818: Lucy Stone (women's rights activist)

1820s

• Born 1823: Goldwin Smith (historian & journalist)

1840s

• 1844: Oregon Institute (later named Willamette University) opened in Salem, Oregon

1860s

• Born 1860: Annie Oakley (sharpshooter)

• Died 1863: Eugene Delacroix (painter)

1870s

• 1878: Andrew Campbell discovered the Luray Caverns in Virginia, when cold air from a sinkhole on a large hill extinguished his candle

1880s

• 1886: Last spike driven for first stage of Esquimalt-Nanaimo Railway in Cliffside, B.C.

• 1889: Samuel Leeds Allen granted patent for Flexible Flyer sled

1890s

• Born 1899: Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker)

1900s

• Born 1907: Sir Basil Spence (architect)

1910s

• Died 1910: Florence Nightingale (pioneer of modern nursing)

1920s

• Born 1926: Fidel Castro (politician)

1930s

• Born 1930: Don Ho (musician)

• 1934: L'il Abner comic strip debuted

1940s

• 1942: The Walt Disney classic, Bambi, opened this day at Radio City Music Hall in New York City

• Died 1946: Herbert George ["H. G."] Wells (English writer)

1950s

• 1955: Canso Causeway, linking Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, opened

• 1956: A plane flew into a hurricane for the first series of bumpy flights for the National Hurricane Research Project, then part of the U.S. Weather Bureau

1960s

• 1961: The East German government closed the border between east and west sectors of Berlin with barbed wire fencing to discourage further population movement to the west. Later in the week a concrete wall was erected to strengthen the barrier between official crossing points

1980s

• 1985: 3-year-old Jamie Gavin became the youngest heart/lung transplant patient

1990s

• Died 1995: Mickey Mantle (baseball player)

2000s

• Died 2004: Julia Child (chef and author)

• 2008: American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 10th and 11th Olympic gold medals making him the most decorated Olympian in history

• Died 2008: Sandy Allen (world's tallest woman, 7' 7" tall)

• Died 2009: Les Paul (guitar pioneer)

2010s

• Died 2012: Johnny Pesky (baseball player)