Historical Events In August - 13

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

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies on August - 13.  

1864  Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA on this day in history.  

1865  On August - 13 ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47  

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  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  Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal on this day in history.  

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

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1876  Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified on this day in history.  

1878  On this day in history leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer  

1879  On August - 13 john N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)  

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch on August - 13.  

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

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on August - 13.  

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  On August - 13 william Gray patents coin-operated telephone  

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

1892  On this day in history baltimore Afro-American forms  

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

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

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

1896  On this day in history john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67  

1897  On August - 13 antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63  

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

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on this day in history.  

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on August - 13.  

1899  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1625  On this day in history birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)  

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.  

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 August - 13 radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies  

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

0900  On this day in history zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29  

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on August - 13.  

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 this day in history.  

1382  Death of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) on August - 13.