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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 - Apollo 11 parade — 17 / 27

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1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon.

OTD August 13 - Tenochtitlan

OTD August 13 - Louis XVI

OTD August 13 - Arica earthquake

OTD August 13 - 433 Eros

OTD August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock

OTD August 13 - Florence Nightingale

OTD August 13 - Opha Mae Johnson

OTD August 13 - Fidel Castro

OTD August 13 - Don Ho

OTD August 13 - L'il Abner

OTD August 13 - Bambi

OTD August 13 - HG Wells

OTD August 13 - Danny Bonaduce

OTD August 13 - Berlin Wall

OTD August 13 - Jefferson Airplane

OTD August 13 - Bonnie and Clyde

OTD August 13 - Apollo 11 parade

OTD August 13 - Rosemount Horizon

OTD August 13 - Lou Brock

OTD August 13 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

OTD August 13 - Mickey Mantle

OTD August 13 - Hurricane Charley

OTD August 13 - Julia Child

OTD August 13 - Athens Olympics

OTD August 13 - Tropic Thunder

OTD August 13 - Les Paul

OTD August 13 - stage collapse

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