Historical Events In February - 13

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

1859  On this day in history frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist   

1860  King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes on this day in history.   

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 February - 13.   

1861  1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ on this day in history.   

1861  On February - 13 uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)   

1862  On February - 13 siege of Ft Donelson TN   

1862  On February - 13 -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN   

1862  Karel Weis, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 February - 13.   

1870  Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer on this day in history.   

1873  Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies on February - 13.   

1874  On this day in history hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic)   

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 this day in history.   

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

1881  Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin) on February - 13.   

1882  Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66 on February - 13.   

1883  On February - 13 bainbridge Crist, composer   

1883  Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1885  On February - 13 elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52)   

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

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  Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier on February - 13.   

1891  On this day in history david Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77   

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

1892  Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic) on this day in history.   

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1440  Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian was born on this day in history.   

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  On February - 13 birth of girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)   

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

1610  Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists was born on February - 13.   

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

1658  Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter was born on February - 13.   

1660  On this day in history birth of johann Sigismund Kusser, composer   

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 February - 13 death of béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)   

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

1219  On February - 13 death of minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)   

1237  On this day in history death of jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns   

1315  On February - 13 jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies   

1332  Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies on this day in history.