Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

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

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

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

1865  Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 on August - 13.   

1867  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) on August - 13.   

1868  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

1885  On August - 13 bHP incorporated in Australia as a business.   

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 August - 13.   

1889  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

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

1894  On this day in history ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director   

1895  On this day in history bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)   

1895  On August - 13 christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies   

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

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

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

1898  US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

1311  On August - 13 birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)   

1422  On August - 13 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  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on this day in history.   

1625  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 13.   

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

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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)