13th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1422
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of William Caxton, first British printer"
  • 1860
  • United States
  • "Birth of Annie Oakley, legendary rifle shooter and first American superstar"
  • 1888
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of John Logie Baird, inventor of television"
  • 1899
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Alfred Hitchcock, film director"
• event
  • 1704
  • Battle of Blenheim
  • 1814
  • "Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch "
  • 1876
  • Germany
  • The start of the first complete performance of Wagner's Ring in Bayreuth
  • 1918
  • Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. .
  • 1934
  • United States
  • The comic strip Lil Abner by Al Capp was first published
  • 1964
  • Great Britain
  • Last executions took place in Britain when Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen were hung for the murder of John Alan West
• Death
  • 1863
  • France
  • "Death of Eugene Delacroix, painter"
  • 1868
  • Great Britain
  • "The first British convict to be executed inside prison, as opposed to in public, was 18 year old murderer Thomas Wells, at Maidstone."
  • 1896
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of John Everett Millais, painter"
  • 1910
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Florence Nightingale, nurse"