August 13: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1521Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés captured the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
2. 1889William Gray received a patent for a coin-operated telephone, a forerunner of the payphone.
3. 1898Carl Gustav Witt discovered 433 Eros, the first known near-Earth asteroid.
4. 1905Norwegians voted yes in the referendum on ending the union with Sweden.
5. 1969Returning from the Moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts received an enthusiastic ticker-tape parade in New York.

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