Historical Events In August - 13

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

1860  On August - 13 danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies  

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 August - 13.  

1868  In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami on this day in history.  

1868  On August - 13 quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)  

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  On this day in history karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)  

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

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer  

1879  On this day in history john N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)  

1881  On this day in history henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch  

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

1885  On this day in history 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  On this day in history adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62  

1888  On August - 13 john Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)  

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on August - 13.  

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  Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) on this day in history.  

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

1896  Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1898  On this day in history jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)  

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on this day in history.  

1899  The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director on this day in history.  

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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  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on August - 13.  

1584  On this day in history 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 August - 13.  

1662  On August - 13 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  On August - 13 irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies  

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  On August - 13 death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)