Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13

1858  On this day in history sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa   

1859  Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist on February - 13.   

1860  King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes on February - 13.   

1861  Abraham Lincoln declared President on February - 13.   

1861  Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks &defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians on February - 13.   

1861  On February - 13 the first military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona   

1861  1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ on February - 13.   

1861  Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian) on February - 13.   

1862  Siege of Ft Donelson TN on February - 13.   

1862  -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN on this day in history.   

1862  Karel Weis, composer on February - 13.   

1864  Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek &Wyatt, Mississippi on this day in history.   

1864  On February - 13 miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi   

1866  On February - 13 jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000)   

1866  On February - 13 jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)   

1867  Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna on this day in history.   

1870  Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer on February - 13.   

1873  On this day in history petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies   

1874  Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic) on February - 13.   

1877  Jazeps Medins, composer on this day in history.   

1880  On this day in history work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.   

1881  The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert on February - 13.   

1881  On February - 13 eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)   

1882  On February - 13 henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66   

1883  On this day in history bainbridge Crist, composer   

1883  Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64 on February - 13.   

1885  Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52) on February - 13.   

1886  On February - 13 painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class   

1886  Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class on February - 13.   

1887  Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I on February - 13.   

1888  Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier on this day in history.   

1891  David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history the birth of Grant Wood, American painter.   

1892  On this day in history grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)   

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1440  On February - 13 birth of hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian   

1457  On this day in history birth of mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)   

1480  Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542) was born on this day in history.   

1599  Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67) was born on February - 13.   

1610  On February - 13 birth of jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists   

1622  Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized was born on February - 13.   

1658  On this day in history birth of jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter   

1660  Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer was born on February - 13.   

0858  On February - 13 death of kenneth I of Scotland   

1130  Honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies on this day in history.   

1141  On this day in history death of béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)   

1199  On February - 13 stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies   

1219  Death of Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192) on this day in history.   

1237  Death of Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns on February - 13.   

1315  On this day in history jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies   

1332  On February - 13 andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies