Page 4: Historical Events In February - 13

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

1859  Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist on this day in history.   

1860  On February - 13 king Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes   

1861  On February - 13 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  On February - 13 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ   

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

1862  Siege of Ft Donelson TN on February - 13.   

1862  On February - 13 -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  Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi on February - 13.   

1866  On February - 13 jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000)   

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

1867  On February - 13 johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna   

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

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

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

1877  Jazeps Medins, composer on this day in history.   

1880  On February - 13 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 first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert on February - 13.   

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  On this day in history bainbridge Crist, composer   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I on February - 13.   

1888  Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier on this day in history.   

1891  On February - 13 david Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77   

1892  On February - 13 the birth of Grant Wood, American painter.   

1892  On February - 13 grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)   

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1440  Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian was born on February - 13.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1660  Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer was born on February - 13.   

0858  On February - 13 death of kenneth I of Scotland   

1130  On this day in history honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies   

1141  On this day in history death of béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)   

1199  On February - 13 stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies   

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

1237  Death of Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns on February - 13.   

1315  Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies on February - 13.   

1332  On February - 13 andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies