August 13

Events

 * 1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1, a balloon *satellite.
 * 1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
 * 1964 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
 * 1912 - Radio Act of 1912, titled An Act to Regulate Radio Communication, is approved

Births

 * 1655 - German inventor Johann Christoph Denner, maker of musical instruments and inventor of the clarinet.
 * 1879 - John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)
 * 1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
 * 1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
 * 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (d. 2007)
 * 1958 - Fergal Sharkey, musician
 * 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
 * 1984 - Baby Blue, American rapper (Pretty Rick