Notable Historical Events - 1913
1913 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Post office begins parcel post deliveries |
Jan 2 |
National Woman's Party forms |
Jan 2 |
Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa. |
Jan 6 |
Attempting to end hostilities in the Balkans, the London Peace Conference breaks down because Turkey refuses to cede Adrianpole, the Aegean island, and Crete |
Jan 7 |
William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum |
Jan 8 |
Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager |
Jan 11 |
1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC) |
Jan 12 |
After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ('man of steel) in a letter to the the paper, Social Democrat |
Jan 13 |
Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest Black Women's Sorority is founded at Howard University, Washington DC |
Jan 16 |
British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland |
Jan 17 |
Raymond Poincaré elected president of France |
Jan 18 |
Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy |
Jan 19 |
Raymond Poincaré installed as president of France |
Jan 21 |
Aristide Briand forms French government |
Jan 23 |
The Young Turks lead a coup d'etat against the Turkish Government |
Jan 24 |
Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished |
Jan 26 |
Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing as a professional |
Jan 29 |
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates |
Jan 30 |
UK House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill |
Feb 2 |
NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe |
Feb 2 |
NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens |
Feb 3 |
16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified |
Feb 3 |
Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC |
Feb 4 |
Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim |
Feb 4 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters founded |
Feb 9 |
-18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die |
Feb 10 |
Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC |
Feb 15 |
1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC |
Feb 16 |
President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico |
Feb 17 |
1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon) |
Feb 17 |
NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public |
Feb 18 |
French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC |
Feb 18 |
President Francisco Madero of Mexico is overthrown |
Feb 19 |
1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box |
Feb 19 |
Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support |
Feb 20 |
King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra. |
Feb 22 |
Lowell HS, SF opens (on its 1st campus) |
Feb 25 |
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax |
Feb 28 |
6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) |
Mar 1 |
1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND |
Mar 1 |
Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) |
Mar 3 |
Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC |
Mar 4 |
1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed |
Mar 4 |
Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments |
Mar 4 |
Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope" premieres in Monte Carlo |
Mar 4 |
NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda) |
Mar 4 |
Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President |
Mar 8 |
Federal League organizes with 6 teams |
Mar 8 |
Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes |
Mar 10 |
Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games |
Mar 10 |
William Knox becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 |
Mar 12 |
Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid |
Mar 13 |
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures |
Mar 14 |
John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation |
Mar 14 |
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Moslem and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid |
Mar 15 |
1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) |
Mar 15 |
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court |
Mar 17 |
The Uruguayan Air Force is founded. |
Mar 18 |
King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. |
Mar 21 |
-26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400 |
Mar 24 |
Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England |
Mar 24 |
Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC |
Mar 25 |
Great Dayton Flood |
Mar 25 |
Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn |
Mar 26 |
Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War |
Mar 26 |
Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously |
Mar 28 |
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Apr 3 |
British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail |
Apr 4 |
The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes. |
Apr 8 |
17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified |
Apr 8 |
Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) |
Apr 9 |
Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0 |
Apr 10 |
President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 |
Apr 10 |
Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings |
Apr 10 |
During the Montenegrin siege of Scutari, the Montenegrin coastline is blockaded |
Apr 14 |
Belgium begins general strike for voting rights |
Apr 16 |
The Bulgarians and the Turks agree to an armistice that will be accepted by the other nations involved |
Apr 19 |
17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minn in 2:25:14.8 |
Apr 21 |
German passenger ship Imperator runs aground |
Apr 22 |
Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania |
Apr 24 |
Skyscraper, the Woolworth Building in New York City is opened |
Apr 26 |
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF |
Apr 26 |
Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China |
May 1 |
Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC |
May 6 |
King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania |
May 7 |
British House of Commons rejects women's right to vote |
May 7 |
An ambassadorial conference in St Petersburg, Russia, awards the town of Silistria to Rumania in compensation for Bulgaria's other territorial gains in the First Balkan War |
May 9 |
17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote |
May 10 |
39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8 |
May 10 |
Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings |
May 12 |
Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) |
May 13 |
1st four-engined aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia) |
May 14 |
Frans Hals museum opens in Haarlem, Netherlands |
May 14 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings |
May 19 |
Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land |
May 20 |
38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4 |
May 26 |
US Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC) |
May 26 |
Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate. |
May 29 |
Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot. |
May 30 |
1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London |
May 30 |
New country of Albania, forms |
May 30 |
John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Jules Goux wins in 6:35:05.108 (126.686 km/h) |
May 31 |
17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified |
May 31 |
Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) |
Jun 1 |
The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece's help |
Jun 2 |
1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor - railroad clerks |
Jun 2 |
Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands |
Jun 3 |
Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws |
Jun 4 |
Suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby |
Jun 5 |
Dutch Disability laws go into effect |
Jun 6 |
Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times |
Jun 11 |
Grand Vizir Mahmud Shevket Pasha is assassinated, resulting in continuing Young Turk terrorism until WWI |
Jun 12 |
"Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released |
Jun 13 |
45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18 |
Jun 13 |
Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games |
Jun 14 |
The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi |
Jun 15 |
The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes. |
Jun 16 |
South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans |
Jun 19 |
Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves |
Jun 20 |
3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman |
Jun 20 |
Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader |
Jun 21 |
Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane |
Jun 24 |
53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake |
Jun 25 |
Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority) |
Jun 25 |
American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
Jun 29 |
The attack by Bulgarian General Michael Savov on Greek and Serbian positions leads to beginning of the second Balkan War |
Jun 30 |
NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1 |
Jun 30 |
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup |
Jul 1 |
Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria |
Jul 3 |
Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) |
Jul 3 |
Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. |
Jul 4 |
37th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (8-6 6-3 10-8) |
Jul 4 |
30th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats W McNair (6-0 6-4) |
Jul 5 |
Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra |
Jul 10 |
134°F (57°C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record) |
Jul 10 |
Romania declares war on Bulgaria |
Jul 10 |
Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. |
Jul 12 |
150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent |
Jul 18 |
After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk |
Jul 19 |
Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1 |
Jul 20 |
Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria |
Jul 21 |
The Egyptian government announces a new constitutional system and electoral law |
Jul 23 |
Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine |
Jul 25 |
Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game |
Jul 25 |
Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies |
Jul 25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
Jul 27 |
Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France |
Jul 28 |
12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) |
Jul 29 |
Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied |
Jul 30 |
Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War |
Aug 3 |
Wheatland Hop Riot |
Aug 8 |
Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia |
Aug 10 |
2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses |
Aug 13 |
Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania. |
Aug 13 |
Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England |
Aug 16 |
Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students. |
Aug 19 |
Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe |
Aug 20 |
1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France) |
Aug 20 |
Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine) |
Aug 22 |
Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn |
Aug 26 |
33rd US Men's Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (6-4 5-7 6-3 6-1) |
Aug 27 |
Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper |
Aug 27 |
Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) |
Aug 28 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague |
Aug 29 |
Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government |
Aug 30 |
Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled |
Aug 31 |
Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Aug 31 |
Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police |
Sep 1 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles & the Lion" premieres in London |
Sep 1 |
Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution" |
Sep 2 |
Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas |
Sep 5 |
Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th |
Sep 6 |
19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers |
Sep 6 |
1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France) |
Sep 6 |
Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club |
Sep 9 |
Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago |
Sep 10 |
Cleveland Call & Post forms |
Sep 10 |
George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia |
Sep 10 |
Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway |
Sep 14 |
27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (6-2 7-5) |
Sep 14 |
Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) |
Sep 15 |
1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY |
Sep 16 |
1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage |
Sep 20 |
19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA |
Sep 21 |
1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France |
Sep 21 |
Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople |
Sep 22 |
Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico |
Sep 22 |
George Cohan's "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC |
Sep 22 |
The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
Sep 23 |
Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea |
Sep 23 |
Serbian troops march into Albania |
Sep 23 |
Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices |
Sep 29 |
Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC |
Sep 29 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game |
Sep 29 |
The Treaty of Constantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria restores peace; the Turks recover Adrianople and Maritza River line |
Oct 2 |
Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader |
Oct 3 |
Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%) |
Oct 4 |
Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP |
Oct 4 |
Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game |
Oct 7 |
Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line |
Oct 10 |
British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed) |
Oct 10 |
Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix |
Oct 10 |
Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China |
Oct 11 |
Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series |
Oct 12 |
John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw & is fired |
Oct 14 |
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives. |
Oct 15 |
Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week" |
Oct 16 |
Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC |
Oct 18 |
Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave |
Oct 19 |
At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticise Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations |
Oct 21 |
Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities, hawking without licenses in Vereeniging; they cross the Natal border and encourage the miners in Newcastle to strike |
Oct 22 |
Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers |
Oct 24 |
Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager |
Oct 26 |
Huerta elected president of Mexico |
Oct 27 |
Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country |
Oct 29 |
Floods in El Salvador kill thousands. |
Oct 31 |
1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated |
Nov 1 |
Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively |
Nov 1 |
Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns |
Nov 2 |
St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League |
Nov 3 |
The USA introduces an income tax. |
Nov 5 |
Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria |
Nov 6 |
Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa |
Nov 9 |
Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes |
Nov 13 |
1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob |
Nov 17 |
1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct |
Nov 18 |
Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) |
Nov 23 |
Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers |
Nov 25 |
The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to "secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland" |
Nov 26 |
Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers |
Nov 26 |
Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City. |
Nov 28 |
Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris |
Nov 29 |
5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2 |
Dec 1 |
1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts) |
Dec 1 |
Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38) |
Dec 2 |
Archdiocese of Managua created |
Dec 2 |
Government -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription |
Dec 6 |
White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo |
Dec 8 |
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF |
Dec 9 |
Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris |
Dec 9 |
John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
Dec 10 |
Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics |
Dec 11 |
"Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered |
Dec 12 |
Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools |
Dec 13 |
British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey proposes that southern Albania be divided between Greece and Albania with compensation to Greece in the Aegean islands |
Dec 14 |
Greece formally takes possession of Crete |
Dec 15 |
Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Dec 16 |
Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week |
Dec 18 |
The Indian Inquiry Commission, also known as the Solomon Commission, commences its sittings in Pretoria |
Dec 19 |
Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Dec 21 |
1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World |
Dec 23 |
President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law |
Dec 29 |
1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago |
Dec 30 |
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103) |
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