361 Historic Events for August 13
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| 1820 |
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Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
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| 1820 |
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George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
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| 1826 |
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William Thomas Best, composer
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| 1831 |
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Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
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| 1831 |
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Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
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| 1840 |
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Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
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| 1841 |
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Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
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| 1841 |
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Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73
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| 1841 |
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Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
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| 1851 |
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John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
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| 1860 |
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Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
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| 1860 |
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Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
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| 1864 |
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Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA
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| 1865 |
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Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47
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| 1867 |
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Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
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| 1867 |
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William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur)
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| 1868 |
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Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)
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| 1871 |
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Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)
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| 1876 |
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Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified
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| 1876 |
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Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
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| 1878 |
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Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
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| 1878 |
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Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
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| 1879 |
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John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
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| 1881 |
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Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author
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| 1881 |
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Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
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