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

1865  On August - 13 ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47   

1867  On this day in history 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 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  On this day in history armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal   

1871  On this day in history karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

1876  Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified on August - 13.   

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 August - 13.   

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

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

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

1886  On this day in history jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter   

1886  On August - 13 adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62   

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

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

1894  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1897  On this day in history antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63   

1898  On this day in history uS forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on this day in history.   

1899  On August - 13 alfred Hitchcock born in London   

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

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0582  On August - 13 birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)   

1311  On this day in history 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  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on August - 13.   

1617  On August - 13 birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist   

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 August - 13.   

1662  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) was born on August - 13.   

0586  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on this day in history.   

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