Page 3: 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  Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA on this day in history.   

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

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

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.   

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

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1881  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author on August - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

1886  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on this day in history.   

1886  On August - 13 adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62   

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history william Gray patents coin-operated telephone   

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 this day in history.   

1894  On August - 13 ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director   

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

1895  Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies on August - 13.   

1896  Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor on August - 13.   

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

1897  On this day in history antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63   

1898  On August - 13 uS forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on August - 13.   

1899  On this day in history alfred Hitchcock born in London   

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

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0582  On this day in history birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)   

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 August - 13 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  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on this day in history.   

1662  On this day in history birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

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 August - 13.   

0900  On August - 13 zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on this day in history.   

1191  Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies on this day in history.   

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.