Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

1860  On August - 13 annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)   

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 August - 13.   

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  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  On August - 13 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  On August - 13 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

1876  On August - 13 reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on August - 13.   

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

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch on this day in history.   

1881  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author on this day in history.   

1885  On this day in history bHP incorporated in Australia as a business.   

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

1886  On August - 13 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 this day in history william Gray patents coin-operated telephone   

1890  [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia on August - 13.   

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms on August - 13.   

1892  On August - 13 uS black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore   

1894  Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director on August - 13.   

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

1895  On this day in history christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies   

1896  On August - 13 leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

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

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

1898  US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war on August - 13.   

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

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on August - 13.   

1899  The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director on August - 13.   

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0582  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on this day in history.   

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 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.