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

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  On August - 13 in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami   

1868  On August - 13 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 this day in history.   

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

1876  On August - 13 reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  On this day in history leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on this day in history.   

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch on this day in history.   

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

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business on August - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history william Gray patents coin-operated telephone   

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

1892  On August - 13 baltimore Afro-American forms   

1892  On this day in history uS black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore   

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

1895  On August - 13 bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)   

1895  Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies on this day in history.   

1896  On this day in history leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

1896  On August - 13 john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67   

1897  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1898  On this day in history uS forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war   

1898  On August - 13 jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)   

1899  On August - 13 alfred Hitchcock born in London   

1899  On this day in history 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 August - 13.   

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

1422  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  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  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 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 August - 13.   

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