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

1868  On this day in history in Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami   

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

1868  Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on this day in history.   

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

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

1876  On this day in history reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer on this day in history.   

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  On August - 13 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  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 this day in history william Gray patents coin-operated telephone   

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

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

1892  US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore on August - 13.   

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

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

1311  On August - 13 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 August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.   

1662  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

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