Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13

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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1440  Hartmann schedel: German physician/humanist/historian   

1457  Mary of burgundy: Daughter of charles the bold and wife of maximilian i, holy roman emperor   

1480  Girolamo aleandro: Italian catholic cardinal   

1599  Alexander vii: [fabio chigi], siena italy, pope (1655-67)   

1610  Jean de la badie: French divine, founder of lagardists   

1622  Adam pijnacker: Landscape painter/etcher, baptized   

1658  Jan b wellekens: Dutch poet/painter   

1660  Johann sigismund kusser: Composer   

0858  Kenneth i of scotland: Kenneth i of scotland   

1130  Death of Honorius ii: [lamberto], pope (1124-30),   

1141  B�la ii of hungary: B�la ii of hungary (b. 1110)   

1199  Death of Stefanus nemanja (symeon): Monk,   

1219  Minamoto no sanetomo: Japanese shogun (b. 1192)   

1237  Jordanus of saxon: 2nd general of dominicans, drowns   

1315  Jean i of chalon-arlay: Mayor of neuchôtel,   

1332  Andronicus ii paleologus: Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk,