Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

1860  Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West) on August - 13.   

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

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  On August - 13 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 August - 13.   

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

1868  On August - 13 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 August - 13.   

1871  Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) on this day in history.   

1876  On this day in history reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on this day in history.   

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

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on this day in history.   

1886  On August - 13 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  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1888  On August - 13 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 this day in history baltimore Afro-American forms   

1892  On this day in history 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 August - 13.   

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

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

1896  John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

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

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 13.   

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  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.   

1662  On this day in history 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 August - 13 maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies   

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  On this day in history philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 on August - 13.   

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