Welcome to Today In History for Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
On this day in history...
- 0523 - St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1099 - Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
- 1415 - King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
- 1516 - Kings Charles I & Fran‡ois I signs Treaty of Noyons
- 1521 - Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
- 1578 - Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
- 1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
- 1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
- 1630 - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
- 1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
- 1645 - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Br”msebro
- 1651 - Litchfield, CT founded
- 1695 - -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
- 1696 - State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
- 1704 - French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
- 1713 - King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
- 1732 - Voltaire's "Za‹re," premieres in Paris
- 1740 - Hunger strike in Rotterdam
- 1784 - English parliament accept India Act
- 1788 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
- 1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
- 1799 - English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
- 1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
- 1814 - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
- 1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
- 1864 - Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
- 1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
- 1876 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
- 1876 - Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
- 1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
- 1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
- 1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
- 1898 - US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
- 1902 - England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
- 1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
- 1906 - Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
- 1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)
- 1908 - Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
- 1910 - Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
- 1914 - -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
- 1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
- 1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
- 1917 - Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
- 1919 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
- 1919 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
- 1920 - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
- 1921 - Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
- 1923 - Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
- 1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
- 1923 - US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
- 1928 - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
- 1931 - Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
- 1932 - Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
- 1932 - Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
- 1933 - 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee
- 1933 - Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
- 1935 - Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
- 1937 - Japanese attack Shanghai
- 1939 - Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
- 1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
- 1940 - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
- 1940 - G”ring's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
- 1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk
- 1943 - Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
- 1944 - British 8th army occupies Florence
- 1944 - Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
- 1944 - Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
- 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
- 1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
- 1950 - Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
- 1951 - Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
- 1953 - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
- 1953 - Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
- 1953 - US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
- 1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
- 1955 - Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield
- 1956 - WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1958 - Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
- 1959 - Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
- 1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
- 1960 - USSR draws adviseors out of China
- 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
- 1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
- 1962 - Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
- 1963 - Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
- 1963 - Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
- 1964 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
- 1967 - WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1969 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
- 1969 - Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
- 1971 - Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
- 1972 - Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
- 1972 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
- 1975 - Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket Oval
- 1977 - 1st test glide of shuttle
- 1977 - Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband
- 1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
- 1978 - Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
- 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
- 1979 - Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
- 1980 - Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
- 1980 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
- 1981 - Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
- 1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
- 1984 - Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
- 1986 - KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
- 1987 - Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
- 1987 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5«" jump
- 1988 - Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
- 1988 - Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
- 1988 - US beats Jamacia 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 - 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
- 1989 - 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill
- 1989 - US space shuttle STS-28 lands
- 1991 - Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
- 1991 - Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford
- 1991 - VP Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
- 1993 - Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
- 1993 - Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
- 1993 - US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
- 1994 - Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
- 1995 - 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif
- 1995 - Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship
- 1996 - Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
- 1997 - Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
- 1997 - SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels