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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 - HG Wells — 12 / 27

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1946: Author H.G. Wells ("The Time Machine," "The War of the Worlds," "The Invisible Man") dies in London, England, at the age of 79.

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OTD August 13 - HG Wells

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OTD August 13 - Berlin Wall

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