Today in History - History - August 13th

1932Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany

198971st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill

1993Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24

1940Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain)

1997SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels

1792Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette

199577th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif

1886John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia

1732Voltaire's "Zaire" premieres in Paris

1950US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai

1912Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)

1860Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926)

1926Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008)

1899Alfred Hitchcock, Leytonstone Essex, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)

1980Actor James Woods (33) weds costume designer Kathryn Morrison

1988Musician Robert Smith (29) weds Mary Poole in UK

1946H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79

1995Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63