1913 - What happened in 1913 ?

January 1913

Monday 13:

Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. founded. Currently the largest African-American women's organization

Thursday 30:

House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.

February 1913

Saturday 01:

New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.

Monday 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.

Tuesday 18:

Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.

Wednesday 19:

Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.

Thursday 20:

King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.

March 1913

Wednesday 12:

Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.

Tuesday 18:

George I of Greece is assassinated.

Thursday 20:

1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

Wednesday 26:

Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.

Friday 28:

Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

April 1913

Tuesday 08:

The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified requiring direct election of Senators.

Wednesday 09:

The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opens.

Tuesday 22:

Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.

Thursday 24:

The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City was opened.

May 1913

Tuesday 13:

Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.

Wednesday 14:

New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

Thursday 29:

Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.

Friday 30:

First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.

Saturday 31:

The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.

June 1913

Wednesday 04:

Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's <!--name?---> horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.

Sunday 15:

US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing massacre at least 2,000 Philippine men, women and children at Bud Bagsak.

Tuesday 24:

Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.

July 1913

Thursday 10:

Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).

August 1913

Sunday 10:

Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.

Wednesday 13:

Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

Saturday 16:

T?hoku Imperial University (modern day T?hoku University) admits its first female students.

Thursday 28:

Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

September 1913

Wednesday 10:

The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens.

October 1913

Tuesday 07:

Henry Ford introduces the assembly line.

Friday 10:

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.

Tuesday 14:

The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.

November 1913

Monday 03:

The USA introduces an income tax.

Wednesday 05:

The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.

Thursday 06:

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

Tuesday 25:

Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

December 1913

Friday 12:

Mona Lisa recovered in Florence, two years after it was stolen

Monday 15:

Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Sunday 21:

First crossword puzzle published

Tuesday 23:

The Federal Reserve Act becomes law

Monday 29:

The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.