Page 3: 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  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  On this day in history rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)   

1868  In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami on August - 13.   

1868  On this day in history quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)   

1868  On August - 13 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 August - 13.   

1871  On this day in history karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

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

1878  On August - 13 leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

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

1881  On this day in history henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch   

1881  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author on this day in history.   

1885  On this day in history bHP incorporated in Australia as a business.   

1886  On August - 13 john A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..   

1886  On August - 13 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 August - 13.   

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone on August - 13.   

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

1892  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms   

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  On August - 13 leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

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

1897  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 on August - 13.   

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  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on this day in history.   

1899  On August - 13 the birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director   

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0582  On this day in history birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)   

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  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on this day in history.   

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on August - 13.   

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

0586  On August - 13 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  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on this day in history.   

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

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  On this day in history daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65   

1382  On August - 13 death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)