This day in history

[Alfie]

On this day in history . . .

July 10, 1940 ... the Battle of Britain began
The Germans began the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which lasted three and a half months, until October 31.

The Germans called it "the Day of the Eagle," the first day of the Luftwaffe’s campaign to destroy the RAF, the British Royal Air Force, and knock out British radar stations, in preparation for Operation Sea Lion, the amphibious invasion of Britain.

Almost 1,500 German aircraft took off the first day of the air raid, and 45 were shot down. Britain lost 13 fighters in the air and another 47 on the ground.

[Alfie]

This day in history: On 13 August 1993, the Royal Plaza Hotel in Korat collapsed killing 137 people and injuring 227.

At about 10:10, the six-storey building totally collapsed in less than ten seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Royal_Plaza_Hotel

[HighwayStar]

13th August 1961 - The German city of Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence. The East Berlin government was adamant in its effort to keep those in the eastern sector from moving into the non-Communist western sector. Even regular telephone and postal service between the sectors was stopped. Several days later, the barbed wire was reinforced with a concrete wall between official crossing points. The Berlin Wall stood as a barrier to freedom for the East Germans until November 9, 1989.