What day of the week was August 13, 1898?

The day of the week August 13th, 1898 fell on was a Saturday.

Regis Toomey the American actor (d. 1991) was born on 13 August in 1898.

Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila the after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands. Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros the the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.