1913

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
List of state leaders in 1913
List of religious leaders in 1913
List of international organization leaders in 1913

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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 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 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 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 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 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 7 – 13 – Long storm in the Great Lakes – 270 dead
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
Female suffrage in Norway
Greece annexes Crete
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.

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 - Stanley Earl Kramer, Academy Award Winning Movie Producer, director, and writer
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
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

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 List of state leaders in 1913 List of religious leaders in 1913 List of international organization leaders in 1913