Historical Events In August - 13

1860  Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West) on this day in history.  

1860  On August - 13 danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies  

1864  Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA on this day in history.  

1865  On this day in history ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47  

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 this day in history.  

1870  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 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  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  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on August - 13.  

1886  On this day in history adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62  

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

1889  On this day in history william Gray patents coin-operated telephone  

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

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 August - 13.  

1895  On this day in history bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)  

1895  On this day in history christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies  

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

1896  On August - 13 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  On this day in history jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)  

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  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 this day in history.  

1584  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on August - 13.  

1617  On this day in history 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  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) was born on August - 13.  

0586  On this day in history death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I  

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

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 this day in history.  

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