Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

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

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1868  In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami on August - 13.   

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

1868  Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on August - 13.   

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

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

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

1886  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on August - 13.   

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

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

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

1895  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1898  On August - 13 jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 13 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 this day in history death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on August - 13.   

0662  On this day in history maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies   

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

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

1191  Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies on August - 13.   

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

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