Historical Events In August - 13

1860  Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West) on this day in history.   

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies on August - 13.   

1864  On August - 13 battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA   

1865  On August - 13 ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47   

1867  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) on August - 13.   

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 August - 13.   

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

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

1878  On this day in history leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun) on August - 13.   

1881  On August - 13 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 this day in history jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter   

1886  On August - 13 adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62   

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

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

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

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 August - 13 ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director   

1895  On this day in history bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)   

1895  Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies on August - 13.   

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

1896  John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 on August - 13.   

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 August - 13.   

1898  On this day in history jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)   

1899  On this day in history alfred Hitchcock born in London   

1899  The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director on August - 13.   

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

1311  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on this day in history.   

1422  On August - 13 birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  On this day in history birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

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

1625  On August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on August - 13.   

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

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  On this day in history 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)