On this day: August 13

POSTED: 10:42 PM PDT Aug 09, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 12, 2012 

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 - Louis XVI
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1792: King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

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