Historical Events In August - 13
Sunday, 24 September 2023
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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