Sci-Fi History: September 13th.

Events on this day: September 13th.

This is a small selection of science fiction and horror related events that have happened on this day over the years.

Born on this Day:

1660 – author Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator: Or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon: Translated from the Lunar Language (1705)

1909 – Herbert Berghof, actor - Out There, Red Planet Mars.

1912 – Reta Shaw, actress - Lost in Space.

1913 – Roy Engle, actor - The Flying Saucer, The Man from Planet X, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Magnetic Monster, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Not of this Earth, The Colossus of New York, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Silent Running, Kingdom of the Spiders.

1924 – Scott Brady, actor - The Fantastic Journey, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Journey to the Center of Time, Destination Inner Space.

1924 – Norman Alden, actor - The Nutty Professor, My Favorite Martian, Planet of the Apes TV series, Back to the Future.

1931 – Barbara Bain, actress - Space 1999.

1936 – Joe E. Tata, actor - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits.

1939 – Richard Kiel, actor - Twilight Zone, Moonraker, The Phantom Planet, The Nutty Professor, The Human Duplicators, The Humanoid, Out of this World, The Incredible Hulk TV series, Our Robot Overlords.

Died On This Day:

1948 – Paul Wegener, actor in The Golem, died aged 73

Television:

On this day in 1974 The Planet of the Apes TV series hit our screens for the first time with the first episode "Escape From Tomorrow".

In the series Space: 1999 it was on this day in the year 1999 that an explosion in a nuclear waste storage facility on the Moon caused the satellite to be hurled out of the Solar System.