Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13

1858  Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa on February - 13.   

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

1860  On this day in history king Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes   

1861  Abraham Lincoln declared President on February - 13.   

1861  On February - 13 colonel Bernard Irwin attacks &defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians   

1861  On this day in history the first military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona   

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

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

1862  On February - 13 siege of Ft Donelson TN   

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

1862  On February - 13 karel Weis, composer   

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

1864  On February - 13 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 February - 13.   

1870  On February - 13 leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer   

1873  On February - 13 petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies   

1874  On February - 13 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 February - 13.   

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

1881  On this day in history eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)   

1882  On this day in history henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66   

1883  Bainbridge Crist, composer on February - 13.   

1883  On February - 13 pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64   

1885  On this day in history 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  On this day in history painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class   

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 this day in history.   

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 February - 13.   

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  On this day in history birth of alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)   

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

1622  On this day in history birth of adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized   

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

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

1315  Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies on this day in history.   

1332  Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies on February - 13.