Historical Events In August - 13

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

1860  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1867  On August - 13 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  Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on this day in history.   

1868  Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on August - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

1878  On August - 13 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 August - 13.   

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

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

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

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

1892  On August - 13 uS black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore   

1894  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

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 August - 13 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 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 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  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on this day in history.   

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

0586  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  On August - 13 radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies   

0662  On August - 13 maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies   

0900  On this day in history 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 August - 13.   

1278  On August - 13 daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65   

1382  On this day in history death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)