Page 3: Historical Events In August - 13

1860  On this day in history annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)   

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami   

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

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

1876  Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified on this day in history.   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on August - 13.   

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  On this day in history jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author   

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

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  On August - 13 adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62   

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) on August - 13.   

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

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

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms on August - 13.   

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

1894  Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director on August - 13.   

1895  On this day in history 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  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 August - 13 uS forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) on August - 13.   

1899  On this day in history alfred Hitchcock born in London   

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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