1913 Details, Meaning 1913 Article and Explanation Guide

1913 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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 1913 in art 1913 in aviation 1913 in film 1913 in literature 1913 in music 1913 in science 1913 in sports 1913 in Canada 1913 in Ireland List of state leaders in 1913 List of religious leaders in 1913 List of international organization leaders in 1913

Table of contents

1 Events

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

2 Births

2.5 January-February
2.6 March-August
2.7 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 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 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 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.
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 of2004).
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 7 - 13 - A storm on the North American Great Lakes kills 270.
October 10 - US President Woodrow Wilson triggers 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.
December 12 – Vincencio Peruggia tries to sell Mona Lisa in the Florence and is arrested
December 30 – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France