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08/13/1820
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Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1820
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George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1826
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William Thomas Best, composer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1831
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Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1831
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Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
Type: Event
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08/13/1840
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Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1841
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Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1841
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Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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08/13/1841
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Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
Type: Death
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08/13/1851
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John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
Type: Birth
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08/13/1860
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Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
Type: Death
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08/13/1860
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Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1864
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Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA
Type: Event
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08/13/1865
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Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47
Type: Death
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08/13/1867
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Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1867
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William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1868
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Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)
Type: Event
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08/13/1871
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Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1876
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Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified
Type: Event
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08/13/1876
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Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
Type: Event
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08/13/1878
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Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
Type: Birth
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08/13/1878
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Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1879
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John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1881
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Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author
Type: Birth
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08/13/1881
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Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
Type: Event
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08/13/1884
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Jo van Ammers-Kller, playwright (Rebellions)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1886
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Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter
Type: Birth
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08/13/1886
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Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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08/13/1888
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John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1889
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William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
Type: Event
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08/13/1890
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[Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia
Type: Birth
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08/13/1892
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US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
Type: Event
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08/13/1894
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Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director
Type: Birth
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08/13/1894
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Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1895
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Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1895
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Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1895
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Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
Type: Death
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08/13/1896
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John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67
Type: Death
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08/13/1896
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Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor
Type: Birth
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08/13/1897
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Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63
Type: Death
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08/13/1898
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US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
Type: Event
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08/13/1898
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Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbeldons between 1922-64)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1899
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Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1901
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Ian Whyte, composer
Type: Birth
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08/13/1902
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England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
Type: Event
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08/13/1902
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Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic
Type: Birth
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08/13/1902
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Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1902
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Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1902
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Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
Type: Birth
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08/13/1903
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Wilton Graff, St Louis MO, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn)
Type: Birth
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