{"id":320216,"date":"2026-08-13T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320216\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:50:09","slug":"today-in-history-august-13-new-york-throws-ticker-tape-parade-for-apollo-11-astronauts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320216\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: August 13, New York throws ticker tape parade for Apollo 11 astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Thursday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2026. There are 140 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

Today in history:<\/p>\n

On Aug. 13,1969, New York City held a ticker-tape parade for Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin and Michael Collins.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/p>\n

In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN\u2019), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.<\/p>\n

In 1792, French revolutionaries arrested and imprisoned King Louis XVI; he would be executed by guillotine the following January.<\/p>\n

In 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for the first coin-operated telephone.<\/p>\n

In 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to join the U.S. Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

In 1952, Big Mama Thornton first recorded the song \u201cHound Dog,\u201d four years before Elvis Presley\u2019s famous version was released.<\/p>\n

In 1961, on what would become known as Barbed Wire Sunday, East Germany sealed the border between Berlin\u2019s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.<\/p>\n

In 1995, Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer at age 63.<\/p>\n

In 2011, seven people were killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair<\/a> during a powerful storm just before a concert was to begin.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced the establishment of full diplomatic relations under a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is 93.
\nOpera singer Kathleen Battle is 78.
\nHigh wire aerialist Philippe Petit is 77.
\nHockey Hall of Famer Bobby Clarke is 77.
\nGolf Hall of Famer Betsy King is 71.
\nMovie director Paul Greengrass is 71.
\nActor Danny Bonaduce is 67.
\nTV weather forecaster Sam Champion is 65.
\nActor Dawnn Lewis is 65.
\nActor John Slattery is 64.
\nActor Debi Mazar is 62.
\nFigure skater Midori Ito is 57.
\nArkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is 44.
\nActor Sebastian Stan is 44.
\nActor Lennon Stella is 27.
\nActor Corey Fogelmanis is 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Thursday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2026. There are 140 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120705,120704,9,24,55,54,56,3646],"class_list":["post-320216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-apollo-11-ticker-tape-parade","tag-august-13-history","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}