
1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar) {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 |Years:
1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |- | align="center" |Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===January-March=== * January 30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill * February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station. * February 3 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax. * February 3 – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins * February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century * February 27 – Freezing weather stops everything in Balkans * March - Outpouring of monarchy sentiment in Russia when the House of Romanov celebrate the 300th anniversary of their succession to the throne *March 4 - End of term for President of the United States William Howard Taft. He is succeeded by Thomas Woodrow Wilson. * March 12 – Canberra becomes the federal capital of Australia * March 13 – Assassination of Francisco Madero, president of Mexico * March 18 - George I of Greece is assassinated. * March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (Kuomintang) is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after. * March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople. ===April-August=== * April 8 - Passing of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, dictating the direct election of senators. * April 24 - Woolworth Building opening ceremony. * May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft. * May 14 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller. * May 29 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score ''The Rite of Spring'' is premiered in Paris * May 30 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. * June - First edition of the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in the United States; still issued bimonthly till today. * June 4 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness. * June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre: US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines. * June 24 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia. * July 3 - Commemeration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania * July 10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004). * August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield. * August 15 - Start of Dublin Lockout, all trade union members dismissed * August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely. ===September-December=== * September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean * September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears enroute to Britain * October 10 – US President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. * October 19 – Founding of the DLRG (German Life Saving Society) * November 5 – The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III of Bavaria. * November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. * November 7–November 12 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250. * December 1 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford was not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one did spark an era of mass production). * December 1 – Greece annexes Crete * December 12 – Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II dies and is succeeded by his grandson Iyasu V of Ethiopia. * December 12 – Vincencio Peruggia tries to sell ''Mona Lisa'' in the Florence and is arrested * December 30 – Italy returns ''Mona Lisa'' to France * December 23 Federal Reserve is created Woodrow Wilson ecomony starts boom and busts cycles ===unknown dates=== * Female suffrage in Norway * British steamship ''Calvadas'' disappears in the Marmora Sea with 200 hands * First crossword puzzle appears in the ''World'' newspaper * Black Chamber, forerunner of National Security Agency, founded * de Sitter: speed of light is independent of speed of source * Sagnac: speed of light depends on speed of rotating platform * Painting September Morn creates a national sensation in U.S. * Camel Cigarettes were introduced * Ela Hockaday founds The Hockaday School * First publication of Journal of Ecology ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 2 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004) * January 6 - Edward Gierek Polish polititian, (d. 2001) **Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000) * January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (d. 1994) * January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998) * January 18 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987) * January 24 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer * January 29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) * February 4 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist * February 6 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996) * February 11 - Lucio Diestro, composer * February 13 - George Barker (poet), British poet (d. 1991) * February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (disappeared) (d. 1975) * February 14 - Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996) * February 25 - Gert Frobe, actor (d. 1988) * February 25 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989) * February 27 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984) * February 27 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005) ===March-June=== * March 4 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952) * March 13 - William Casey, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1987) **Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist * March 18 - René Clément, French film director (d. 1996) * March 21 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991) * March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000) * March 30 - Richard Helms, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002) **Frankie Laine, American singer * April 3 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005) * April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004) * May 1 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980) * May 8 - Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937) * May 11 - Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994) * May 16 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987) * May 20 - William Hewlett, American businessman cofounder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) * May 26 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994) * May 29 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997) * June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Soviet composer * June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970) * June 18 - Robert Mondavi, American wine maker * June 25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005) * June 28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker ===July-September=== * July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States * July 18 - Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997) * July 22 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995) * August 8 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (d. 1984) * August 17 - Rudy York, Major League Baseball player (d. 1970) * August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995) **Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975) * September 5 - Frank Thomas (animator), American animator (d. 2004) * September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980) * September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, President of Guatemala (d. 1971) * September 15 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988) * September 19 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970) * September 29 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988) **Stanley Kramer, Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001) **Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996) * September 30 - Bill Walsh (producer), American movie producer and writer (d. 1975) ===November-December=== * November 2 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994) * November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967) * November 7 - Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960) * November 9 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000) * November 10 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician * November 15 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005) * November 21 - John and Roy Boulting, English film director (d.1985) **John and Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001) * November 22 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976) * December 6 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004) * December 10 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996) ==Deaths== * January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833) * January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855) * February 26 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835) * March 10 - Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist (b. 1820) * March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882) * March 31 - J.P.Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837) * June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner * July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (b. 1845) * October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856) * November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823) *December 12 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Alfred Werner * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Charles Robert Richet * Nobel Prize in literature - Rabindranath Tagore * Nobel Prize/Peace - Henri La Fontaine 1913 la:1913 nds:1913 os:1913 se:1913 sq:1913 scn:1913 simple:1913
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1913
1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar) {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 |Years:
1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |- | align="center" |Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===January-March=== * January 30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill * February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station. * February 3 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax. * February 3 – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins * February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century * February 27 – Freezing weather stops everything in Balkans * March - Outpouring of monarchy sentiment in Russia when the House of Romanov celebrate the 300th anniversary of their succession to the throne *March 4 - End of term for President of the United States William Howard Taft. He is succeeded by Thomas Woodrow Wilson. * March 12 – Canberra becomes the federal capital of Australia * March 13 – Assassination of Francisco Madero, president of Mexico * March 18 - George I of Greece is assassinated. * March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (Kuomintang) is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after. * March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople. ===April-August=== * April 8 - Passing of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, dictating the direct election of senators. * April 24 - Woolworth Building opening ceremony. * May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft. * May 14 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller. * May 29 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score ''The Rite of Spring'' is premiered in Paris * May 30 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. * June - First edition of the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in the United States; still issued bimonthly till today. * June 4 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness. * June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre: US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines. * June 24 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia. * July 3 - Commemeration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania * July 10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004). * August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield. * August 15 - Start of Dublin Lockout, all trade union members dismissed * August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely. ===September-December=== * September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean * September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears enroute to Britain * October 10 – US President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. * October 19 – Founding of the DLRG (German Life Saving Society) * November 5 – The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III of Bavaria. * November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. * November 7–November 12 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250. * December 1 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford was not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one did spark an era of mass production). * December 1 – Greece annexes Crete * December 12 – Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II dies and is succeeded by his grandson Iyasu V of Ethiopia. * December 12 – Vincencio Peruggia tries to sell ''Mona Lisa'' in the Florence and is arrested * December 30 – Italy returns ''Mona Lisa'' to France * December 23 Federal Reserve is created Woodrow Wilson ecomony starts boom and busts cycles ===unknown dates=== * Female suffrage in Norway * British steamship ''Calvadas'' disappears in the Marmora Sea with 200 hands * First crossword puzzle appears in the ''World'' newspaper * Black Chamber, forerunner of National Security Agency, founded * de Sitter: speed of light is independent of speed of source * Sagnac: speed of light depends on speed of rotating platform * Painting September Morn creates a national sensation in U.S. * Camel Cigarettes were introduced * Ela Hockaday founds The Hockaday School * First publication of Journal of Ecology ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 2 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004) * January 6 - Edward Gierek Polish polititian, (d. 2001) **Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000) * January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (d. 1994) * January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998) * January 18 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987) * January 24 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer * January 29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) * February 4 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist * February 6 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996) * February 11 - Lucio Diestro, composer * February 13 - George Barker (poet), British poet (d. 1991) * February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (disappeared) (d. 1975) * February 14 - Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996) * February 25 - Gert Frobe, actor (d. 1988) * February 25 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989) * February 27 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984) * February 27 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005) ===March-June=== * March 4 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952) * March 13 - William Casey, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1987) **Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist * March 18 - René Clément, French film director (d. 1996) * March 21 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991) * March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000) * March 30 - Richard Helms, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002) **Frankie Laine, American singer * April 3 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005) * April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004) * May 1 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980) * May 8 - Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937) * May 11 - Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994) * May 16 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987) * May 20 - William Hewlett, American businessman cofounder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) * May 26 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994) * May 29 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997) * June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Soviet composer * June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970) * June 18 - Robert Mondavi, American wine maker * June 25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005) * June 28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker ===July-September=== * July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States * July 18 - Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997) * July 22 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995) * August 8 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (d. 1984) * August 17 - Rudy York, Major League Baseball player (d. 1970) * August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995) **Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975) * September 5 - Frank Thomas (animator), American animator (d. 2004) * September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980) * September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, President of Guatemala (d. 1971) * September 15 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988) * September 19 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970) * September 29 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988) **Stanley Kramer, Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001) **Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996) * September 30 - Bill Walsh (producer), American movie producer and writer (d. 1975) ===November-December=== * November 2 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994) * November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967) * November 7 - Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960) * November 9 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000) * November 10 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician * November 15 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005) * November 21 - John and Roy Boulting, English film director (d.1985) **John and Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001) * November 22 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976) * December 6 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004) * December 10 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996) ==Deaths== * January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833) * January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855) * February 26 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835) * March 10 - Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist (b. 1820) * March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882) * March 31 - J.P.Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837) * June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner * July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (b. 1845) * October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856) * November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823) *December 12 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Alfred Werner * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Charles Robert Richet * Nobel Prize in literature - Rabindranath Tagore * Nobel Prize/Peace - Henri La Fontaine 1913 la:1913 nds:1913 os:1913 se:1913 sq:1913 scn:1913 simple:1913
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