Historical Events In August - 13

1860  Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West) on August - 13.  

1860  On this day in history danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies  

1864  On August - 13 battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA  

1865  On this day in history ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47  

1867  On August - 13 rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)  

1868  On August - 13 in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami  

1868  Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on August - 13.  

1868  On this day in history earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)  

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

1871  Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) on August - 13.  

1876  Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified on August - 13.  

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer  

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on this day in history.  

1881  On this day in history 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 this day in history bHP incorporated in Australia as a business.  

1886  On this day in history john A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..  

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 this day in history.  

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on this day in history.  

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

1892  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms  

1892  US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore on August - 13.  

1894  On this day in history ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director  

1895  Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) on this day in history.  

1895  On August - 13 christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies  

1896  Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor on this day in history.  

1896  John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 on August - 13.  

1897  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1898  On this day in history uS forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war  

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

1899  On August - 13 alfred Hitchcock born in London  

1899  The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director on this day in history.  

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0582  On August - 13 birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)  

1311  On August - 13 birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)  

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on August - 13.  

1584  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on August - 13.  

1617  On August - 13 birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist  

1625  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.  

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on this day in history.  

1662  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) was born on this day in history.  

0586  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I  

0587  On this day in history radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies  

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on August - 13.  

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  Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies on this day in history.  

1278  On this day in history daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65  

1382  On this day in history death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)