August 13th in History
August 13th History
1521 – Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1642 Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Mars's southern polar cap.
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On this day 1831 was hanged on the gallows in St. Mary's Street, outside Cardiff gaol. His last words are reported to have been "O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd" ("Oh Lord, here is iniquity")
Dic Penderyn was a Welsh labourer and coal miner, who was born, Richard Lewis in Aberavon in 1808. He and his family moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1819, where he and his father worked in the local mines. Richard was always known as Dic Penderyn after the village of Penderyn near Hirwaun where he lodged.
On June 3, 1831, he was involved in the Merthyr Rising, which was one of many protests throughout industrial Wales at the time against the terrible working conditions in the mines and ironworks, made worse by wage cuts and the layoffs as demand for iron and coal fell away. A mob ransacked the building where court records of debt were being stored, and in a bid to restore order, a detachment from one of the Highland Regiments stationed at Brecon, fired into the unarmed crowd, killing 16 people. No soldiers were killed in the affray, but one, a Private Donald Black was stabbed in the leg with a bayonet. Along with his cousin Lewis Lewis, Dic Penderyn was arrested for the attack even though neither man could be identified as carrying it out. Even though it is thought that Dic had limited involvement in the rising, both he and his cousin were convicted and sentenced to death, however, Lewis Lewis later had his sentence commuted to transportation.
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1868 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Arica, Chile
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovered 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be seen.
1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England.
1918 – Opha Mae Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released in theatres.
1961 – East Germany closed the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin with the Berlin Wall.
1965 – Jefferson Airplane made their first professional appearance at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, New York.
1997 – South Park aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
2013 – Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes. All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive, experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
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1521 – Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1642 Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Mars's southern polar cap.
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On this day 1831 was hanged on the gallows in St. Mary's Street, outside Cardiff gaol. His last words are reported to have been "O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd" ("Oh Lord, here is iniquity")
Dic Penderyn was a Welsh labourer and coal miner, who was born, Richard Lewis in Aberavon in 1808. He and his family moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1819, where he and his father worked in the local mines. Richard was always known as Dic Penderyn after the village of Penderyn near Hirwaun where he lodged.
On June 3, 1831, he was involved in the Merthyr Rising, which was one of many protests throughout industrial Wales at the time against the terrible working conditions in the mines and ironworks, made worse by wage cuts and the layoffs as demand for iron and coal fell away. A mob ransacked the building where court records of debt were being stored, and in a bid to restore order, a detachment from one of the Highland Regiments stationed at Brecon, fired into the unarmed crowd, killing 16 people. No soldiers were killed in the affray, but one, a Private Donald Black was stabbed in the leg with a bayonet. Along with his cousin Lewis Lewis, Dic Penderyn was arrested for the attack even though neither man could be identified as carrying it out. Even though it is thought that Dic had limited involvement in the rising, both he and his cousin were convicted and sentenced to death, however, Lewis Lewis later had his sentence commuted to transportation.
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1868 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Arica, Chile
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovered 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be seen.
1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England.
1918 – Opha Mae Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released in theatres.
1961 – East Germany closed the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin with the Berlin Wall.
1965 – Jefferson Airplane made their first professional appearance at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, New York.
1997 – South Park aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
2013 – Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes. All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive, experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
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