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  Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA on August - 13.  

1865  On this day in history ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47  

1867  On this day in history rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)  

1868  On August - 13 in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami  

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 this day in history.  

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

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer  

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

1881  On August - 13 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  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on this day in history.  

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  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on this day in history.  

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on this day in history.  

1890  On this day in history [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia  

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms on August - 13.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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 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  On this day in history alfred Hitchcock born in London  

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  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on this day in history.  

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  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)  

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 August - 13.  

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

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on August - 13.  

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 this day in history.  

1382  Death of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) on this day in history.