Historical Events In August - 13

1860  On this day in history annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)  

1860  On this day in history danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies  

1864  On August - 13 battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA  

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

1867  On August - 13 rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)  

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

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

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer  

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on August - 13.  

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

1886  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on August - 13.  

1886  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on August - 13.  

1888  On this day in history john Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)  

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  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms  

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

1894  On August - 13 ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director  

1895  On August - 13 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 this day in history.  

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

1897  On August - 13 antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63  

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 August - 13 alfred Hitchcock born in London  

1899  On this day in history the birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director  

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0582  On this day in history birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)  

1311  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on this day in history.  

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on this day in history.  

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  On August - 13 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  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on August - 13.  

0662  On August - 13 maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies  

0900  On August - 13 zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29  

1134  On August - 13 irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies  

1191  Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies on this day in history.  

1278  On this day in history daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65  

1382  Death of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) on August - 13.