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1913 is a common
year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar)
Events
- January 30 - House of
Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
- February 1 - New York
City's Grand Central Station 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 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
- March 4 - End of term for President of the United States William Howard Taft. He is succeedeb by Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
- March 12 - Canberra becomes the
capital of Australia
- 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 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 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
killed at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines.
- July 10 - Death Valley,
California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in
the United States (as of2004).
- August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first
person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
- October 10 - US President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
- 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.
- December 1 - Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12 1/2 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 12 - Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II dies and is succeeded
by his grandson Iyasu V of Ethiopia.
- 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.
Year in topic
Births
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
- January 6 - Loretta
Young, actress (d. 2000)
- January 9 - Richard
M. Nixon, President of the United
States (d. 1994)
- January 15 - Lloyd
Bridges, actor (d. 1998)
- January 18 - Danny Kaye,
actor (d. 1987)
- January 29 - Peter
von Zahn, journalist and writer
- February 4 - Rosa Parks,
civil rights activist
- February 6 - Mary
Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)
- February 11 - Lucio Diestro, composer.
- February 13 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
- February 14 - Jimmy
Hoffa, labor union leader (d. 1975
- disappeared)
- February 14 - Mel Allen, sports reporter (d. 1996)
- February 25 - Gert Fröbe, actor (d. 1988)
- February 25 - Jim Backus, actor (d. 1989)
- February 27 - Irwin Shaw, writer (d. 1984)
- March 4 - John Garfield,
actor (d. 1952)
- March 13 - William
Casey, director of the Central Intelligence
Agency (d. 1987)
- March 18 - René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
- March 29 - Tony Zale, world
champion boxer (d. 1997)
- March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- March 30 - Richard
Helms, director of the Central Intelligence
Agency (d. 2002)
- March 30 - Frankie Laine, singer
- May 11 - Robert Jungk,
publicist and futurologist (d. 1994)
- May 16 - Woody Herman,
musician, band leader (d. 1987)
- May 20 - William
Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard
- May 26 - Peter Cushing,
British actor (d. 1994)
- June 10 - Tikhon
Khrennikov, Soviet composer
- June 11 - Vince
Lombardi, American football coach
- June 18 – Robert
Mondavi, leading American wine maker
- June 28 - Franz Antel,
Austrian filmmaker
- July 14 - Gerald Ford,
American president.
- August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist
- September 12 - Jesse
Owens, American athlete
- September 15 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal.
- September 29 - Trevor Howard, actor
- September 30 - Bill
Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
- November 2 - Burt
Lancaster, actor
- November 5 - Vivien
Leigh, British actress
- November 7 - Albert
Camus, writer
- November 22 - Benjamin Britten, composer
- December 6 - Eleanor
Holm - American swimmer
Deaths
- January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
- January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist
- 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
Heads of State
- China -
- Sun Yat-Sen, President of the Republic of China (1912-1913)
- Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1913-1916)
- Denmark - Christian X, King of Denmark
(1912-1947)
- France -
- Armand Fallières, President of France (1906-1913)
- Raymond Poincaré, President of France (1913-1920)
- Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
- Holy See - Pope Pius X,
Bishop of Rome (1903-1914)
- Japan - Yoshihito, Taisho Emperor
(1912-1926)
- Norway - Haakon
VII, King of Norway (1905-1957)
- Ottoman Empire - Mehmed
V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(1909-1918)
- Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
- Spain - Alfonso
XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
- United States -
- William Howard Taft, President of the United States (1909-1913)
- Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States (1913-1921)
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