Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13

1858  On February - 13 sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa   

1859  On February - 13 frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist   

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

1861  On this day in history abraham Lincoln declared President   

1861  Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks &defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians on this day in history.   

1861  The first military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN   

1862  Karel Weis, composer on February - 13.   

1864  Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek &Wyatt, Mississippi on February - 13.   

1864  On this day in history miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi   

1866  Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000) on February - 13.   

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  On February - 13 leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer   

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  Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards on February - 13.   

1881  The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert on this day in history.   

1881  Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin) on this day in history.   

1882  Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1887  On this day in history alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I   

1888  On this day in history georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier   

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

1892  The birth of Grant Wood, American painter on this day in history.   

1892  Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic) on February - 13.   

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1440  On this day in history birth of hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian   

1457  On February - 13 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 February - 13.   

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

1610  On this day in history birth of jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists   

1622  Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1658  On February - 13 birth of jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter   

1660  Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer was born on this day in history.   

0858  Death of Kenneth I of Scotland on February - 13.   

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

1141  Death of Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110) on February - 13.   

1199  On this day in history stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies   

1219  On this day in history death of minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)   

1237  On February - 13 death of jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns   

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