Historical Events In August - 13
Monday, 25 January 2021
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.
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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