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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 - L'il Abner — 10 / 27

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1934: Al Capp's comic strip "L'il Abner" makes its debut in newspapers. The strip, which featured a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Ky., would run for 43 years.

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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

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OTD August 13 - Berlin Wall

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