World War 1 and 2

1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar)

Years: 1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-March
1.2 April-September
1.3 October-December
1.4 unknown dates

2 Births

2.1 January-February
2.2 March-August
2.3 September-December

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

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 19 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time
February 27 – Freezing weather stops everything in Balkans
March - Outpouring of monarchist 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 (KMT) is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.
March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.

April-September

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 20 - 700 feet above Buc , France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean
September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears enroute to Britain

October-December

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.
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 NSA, 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

Deaths

January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist
February 26 - Felix Draeseke, German composer
March 10 - Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist
March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of KMT
March 31 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker
June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, brewer, baseball owner
July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero
October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter
December 12 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia
Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist