Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

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

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies on August - 13.   

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

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 August - 13.   

1868  On August - 13 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  Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1879  On this day in history john N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)   

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

1881  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author on August - 13.   

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on August - 13.   

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 August - 13.   

1886  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history john Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)   

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

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  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  On August - 13 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  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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  On August - 13 alfred Hitchcock born in London   

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  On August - 13 birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)   

1422  On August - 13 birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  On August - 13 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  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on August - 13.   

1655  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

1134  On August - 13 irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies   

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

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 this day in history.