Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/August 13
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- August 13:
- 1521 - Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured present-day Mexico City from the Aztecs.
- 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director, is born. (d. 1980)
- 1942 - Walt Disney's animated feature "Bambi" premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
- 1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place.