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Now and Then:13 AUGUST
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13 AUGUST 1521: Hernando Cortez, Spanish conqueror, captured
Mexico City from Aztec Indians.
1704: The Battle of Blenheim took place in southern Germany, in
which a British-Austrian army under Marlborough and Prince Eugene
decisively defeated the French and Bavarian armies in the War of the
Spanish Succession.
1784: Britain's India Act placed East India Company under
government-appointed Board of Control.
1792: French revolutionaries imprisoned France's royal family.
1814: Cape of Good Hope province became a British colony.
1889: The coin-operated phone was patented in the US by William ...
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