Historical Events In August - 13

1860  On this day in history annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)   

1860  On August - 13 danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies   

1864  On this day in history battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA   

1865  Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1867  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) on this day in history.   

1868  On this day in history in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami   

1868  On August - 13 quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)   

1868  On August - 13 earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)   

1870  Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal on August - 13.   

1871  On August - 13 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

1876  On August - 13 reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on August - 13.   

1881  On August - 13 henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch   

1881  On this day in history jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author   

1885  On August - 13 bHP incorporated in Australia as a business.   

1886  John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia. on August - 13.   

1886  On this day in history jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter   

1886  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on August - 13.   

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on August - 13.   

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on August - 13.   

1890  On this day in history [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia   

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms on August - 13.   

1892  On August - 13 uS black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore   

1894  Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director on this day in history.   

1895  Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) on August - 13.   

1895  Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies on this day in history.   

1896  On this day in history leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

1896  On August - 13 john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67   

1897  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 on August - 13.   

1898  US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war on this day in history.   

1898  On this day in history jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)   

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on August - 13.   

1899  On August - 13 the birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director   

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

1311  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on August - 13.   

1422  On this day in history birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  On this day in history birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

1617  On this day in history birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist   

1625  On August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On this day in history birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

0586  On this day in history death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on this day in history.   

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on this day in history.   

0900  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on August - 13.   

1134  On this day in history irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies   

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 on August - 13.   

1382  Death of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) on this day in history.