Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

1860  On August - 13 annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)   

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

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  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) on August - 13.   

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

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

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on August - 13.   

1881  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on this day in history.   

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

1890  On August - 13 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia   

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms on this day in history.   

1892  US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore on this day in history.   

1894  On August - 13 ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director   

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 this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

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  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

1311  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)   

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on this day in history.   

1584  On August - 13 birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on this day in history.   

1625  On this day in history birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On this day in history birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

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

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

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on August - 13.   

0900  On August - 13 zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on August - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

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