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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 - Mickey Mantle — 21 / 27

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1995: Hall of Fame baseball player Mickey Mantle, who won seven World Series titles in his 18 years with the New York Yankees, dies from liver cancer at the age of 63 in Dallas, Texas.

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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

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OTD August 13 - Mickey Mantle

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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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