This day in History - January 13

373 Historic Events for January 13
1830 Event Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1834 Birth Horatio Alger Jr, Revere Mass, author (Lost at Sea, Work and Win)
1835 Birth Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior
1838 Death Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53
1849 Event Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1850 Birth Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
1854 Event Anthony Foss patents accordion
1859 Birth Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
1859 Birth Kost¡s Palam s, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia)
1863 Event Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
1863 Event Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1864 Birth Wilhelm K W Wien, German phyicist (Nobel 1911)
1864 Death Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
1865 Event -Jan 15th] BBT and CPT Ft Fisher, NC
1866 Birth Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
1869 Birth Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist
1869 Event National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
1869 Event Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
1870 Birth Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
1873 Event P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
1874 Event US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1874 Event Battle between jobless and police in NYC, 100s injuried
1874 Birth Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
1879 Death WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
1882 Event Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"