Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

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  On this day in history battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA   

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

1867  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) on this day in history.   

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  Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal on this day in history.   

1871  Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) on August - 13.   

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

1878  On this day in history leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  On August - 13 john N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)   

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch on August - 13.   

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

1886  On August - 13 jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter   

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

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on August - 13.   

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on this day in history.   

1890  [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia on this day in history.   

1892  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms   

1892  On this day in history 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 this day in history christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies   

1896  Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor on this day in history.   

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

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 August - 13.   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on August - 13.   

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

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

1655  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

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

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on August - 13.   

0587  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on August - 13.   

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on this day in history.   

0900  On this day in history zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on this day in history.   

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

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 August - 13.