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01/13/1830
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Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
Type: Event
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01/13/1834
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Horatio Alger Jr, Revere Mass, author (Lost at Sea, Work and Win)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1835
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Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior
Type: Birth
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01/13/1838
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Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
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01/13/1849
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Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
Type: Event
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01/13/1850
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Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1854
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Anthony Foss patents accordion
Type: Event
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01/13/1859
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Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1859
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Kost¡s Palam s, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1863
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Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
Type: Event
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01/13/1863
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Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
Type: Event
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01/13/1864
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Wilhelm K W Wien, German phyicist (Nobel 1911)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1864
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Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
Type: Death
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01/13/1865
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-Jan 15th] BBT and CPT Ft Fisher, NC
Type: Event
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01/13/1866
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Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1869
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Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
Type: Event
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01/13/1869
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National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
Type: Event
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01/13/1869
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Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist
Type: Birth
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01/13/1870
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Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1873
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P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
Type: Event
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01/13/1874
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Battle between jobless and police in NYC, 100s injuried
Type: Event
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01/13/1874
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US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
Type: Event
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01/13/1874
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Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
Type: Birth
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01/13/1879
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WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
Type: Death
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01/13/1882
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Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
Type: Event
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01/13/1883
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Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
Type: Event
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01/13/1883
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Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
Type: Event
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01/13/1884
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Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1884
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Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
Type: Birth
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01/13/1885
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Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1888
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National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
Type: Event
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01/13/1892
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Paul Smart, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1892
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Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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01/13/1893
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British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
Type: Event
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01/13/1893
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Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1893
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Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1894
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Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
Type: Event
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01/13/1895
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Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
Type: Event
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01/13/1895
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Anton Betzner, writer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1895
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Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1898
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Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
Type: Event
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01/13/1898
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Pedro DE Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch diplomat
Type: Birth
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01/13/1900
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Yasuji Kiyose, composer
Type: Birth
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01/13/1901
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Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
Type: Death
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01/13/1902
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Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth till June 1
Type: Event
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01/13/1903
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Kay Francis, [Katherine E Gibbs], Okla City, actress (False Madonna)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1904
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Richard Addinsell, London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
Type: Birth
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01/13/1905
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Percy Humphrey, musician
Type: Birth
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01/13/1906
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1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
Type: Event
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01/13/1906
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Maxime Jacob, composer
Type: Birth
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