Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes 

1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President 

1861 Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. 

1861 The inaugural military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona 

1861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ 

1861 Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian). 

1862 Siege of Ft Donelson TN. 

1862 -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN. 

1862 Karel Weis, composer. 

1864 Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi 

1864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi. 

1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15000) 

1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15000) 

1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna. 

1870 Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer 

1873 Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies. 

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

1877 Jazeps Medins, composer. 

1880 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 inaugural published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert 

1881 Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin) 

1882 Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66 

1883 Bainbridge Crist, composer 

1883 Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64. 

1885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52) 

1886 Painter Thomas Eakins steps down from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class. 

1886 Painter Thomas Eakins steps down from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class 

1887 Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 results in the deaths of in WW I 

1888 Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier 

1891 David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77 

1892 Grant Wood, American painter is born. 

1892 Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic). 

1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52). 

1893 Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 

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