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  Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 on August - 13.   

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  Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador) on August - 13.   

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  On this day in history 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  On August - 13 henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch   

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

1886  On August - 13 jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter   

1886  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 on August - 13.   

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

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

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  On this day in history christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London on August - 13.   

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  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) was born on August - 13.   

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on August - 13.   

1584  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on August - 13.   

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

1625  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on August - 13.   

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  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  On this day in history radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies   

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on this day in history.   

0900  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on this day in history.   

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

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 on this day in history.   

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