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 this day in history.   

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 August - 13.   

1868  Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on August - 13.   

1870  On August - 13 armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal   

1871  On August - 13 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

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

1878  On this day in history 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  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author on this day in history.   

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  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on this day in history.   

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

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on this day in history.   

1889  On August - 13 william Gray patents coin-operated telephone   

1890  [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia on August - 13.   

1892  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms   

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

1894  Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director on this day in history.   

1895  Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) on August - 13.   

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

1896  On this day in history leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

1896  On August - 13 john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67   

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

1898  On this day in history 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 August - 13.   

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

1311  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on August - 13.   

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  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on August - 13.   

1625  On August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On this day in history birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

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

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

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  On August - 13 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.