Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1868  On August - 13 quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)   

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

1870  On August - 13 armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal   

1871  Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) on August - 13.   

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

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on August - 13.   

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

1881  On August - 13 henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch   

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

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on this day in history.   

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

1886  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter on this day in history.   

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

1888  On August - 13 john Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)   

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

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

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  On this day in history ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director   

1895  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

1896  John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on this day in history.   

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on this day in history.   

1899  The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director on this day in history.   

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

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  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  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

0900  On this day in history zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on this day in history.   

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 August - 13.