Afrigather 1 of 5 | Michael Phelps celebrates profitable gold after the boys’s 4 x 100m medley relay last on the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on the 2016 Rio Summer time Olympics in Brazil on August 13, 2016. The medal was Phelps’ twenty third gold, making him essentially the most embellished Olympian in historical past. File Photograph by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photograph
Aug. 13 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:
In 1889, William Grey patented the coin-operated phone.
In 1918, ladies had been allowed to hitch the U.S. Marines for the primary time. Sgt. Opha Might Johnson, a 40-year-old civil servant, was the primary to enlist.
In 1930, Capt. Frank Hawkes set an air pace report by flying from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes.
In 1961, East Germany closed the Brandenburg Gate and ready to begin constructing the Berlin Wall.
In 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter was nominated for a second time period by the Democratic Nationwide Conference in New York. He misplaced in November to Ronald Reagan.
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In 1990, singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield was left paralyzed when he was hit by a wind-blown lighting rig on an out of doors stage in New York. He died in 1999.
In 1993, the multi-story Royal Plaza Resort in jap Thailand collapsed right into a heap of rubble, leaving 137 individuals useless.
In 2008, Invoice Gwatney, chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Celebration and a former legislator, was shot to loss of life in his Little Rock workplace. After a 30-mile chase, a suspect was killed by police in an alternate of gunfire. A motive for Gwatney’s killing was by no means decided.
In 2013, Israel launched 26 Palestinian prisoners as a part of a deal to renew peace talks.
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In 2014, Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was amongst seven individuals killed in a aircraft crash southeast of Sao Paulo.
In 2016, Michael Phelps gained his twenty third Olympic gold medal to complete his swimming profession because the world’s most embellished Olympian.
In 2019, media firms CBS and Viacom agreed to a merger, combining their leisure property in an all-stock merger. The brand new firm was generally known as ViacomCBS.
In 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to full normalization of relations.
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