This day in History - February 13

409 Historic Events for February 13
1849 Birth Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1852 Birth Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
1858 Event Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
1859 Birth Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1859 Birth William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1860 Event King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
1861 Event Col Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
1861 Event 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
1861 Birth Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
1861 Event Abraham Lincoln declared president
1862 Event -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN
1862 Birth Karel Weis, composer
1864 Event Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi
1866 Event Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1867 Event Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1870 Birth Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1873 Death Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies
1874 Birth Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic)
1875 Birth ? Kanouse, Watertown Wisc, 1st quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse
1877 Birth Jazeps Medins, composer
1881 Birth Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
1882 Death Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66
1883 Birth Bainbridge Crist, composer
1883 Death Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
1883 Birth Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager