1913 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 198 of 198

• Jul 1 Serbia and 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 10 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
• Jul 10 World's official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California at 134 °F (56.7 °C)
• 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 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 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 29 Independence of the Principality of Albania recognized by the Conference of London
• Jul 30 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War


• Aug 3 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
• 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 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 Adolphe Célestin 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 27 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper
• Aug 27 Lt Pyotr Nesterov, 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 31 Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police

• Sep 1 Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
• Sep 2 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
• Sep 6 1st aircraft to loop the loop - Adolphe Pégoud in France
• Sep 6 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
• Sep 9 Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to fly a loop, doing so in his Nieuport IV monoplane; he is arrested for ten days for endangering government property


• 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 15 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
• Sep 16 Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
• Sep 21 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
• Sep 21 Turkey and 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 The Treaty of Constantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria restores peace; the Turks recover Adrianople and Maritza River line

• Oct 4 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in 21-3 win over Saskatoon Rugby Club
• 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 the 1st President of China
• 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 George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" premieres in Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria
• Oct 16 Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC

• 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 26 José Victoriano Huerta Márquez elected president of Mexico
• Oct 27 President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country
• Oct 28 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
• Oct 29 Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
• Oct 31 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
• Nov 1 Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
• Nov 3 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob
• Nov 5 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
• Nov 6 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa
• Nov 9 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
• Nov 17 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Nov 17 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
• Nov 18 Lincoln Deachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near 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
• Dec 1 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)

• Dec 1 Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece.
• Dec 2 Archdiocese of Managua created
• Dec 2 French Government of Louis Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
• Dec 8 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
• Dec 10 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

• Dec 11 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
• 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 18 The Indian Inquiry Commission, also known as the Solomon Commission, commences its sittings in Pretoria
• Dec 21 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
• Dec 23 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

• Dec 30 Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)

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Birthdays in History

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 244

• May 23 Ian Graeme, major-general
• May 25 J. Peter Grace, American businessman and industrialist, born in Manhasset, New York (d. 1995)
• May 26 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, born in Bilzen, Belgium (d. 1986)
• May 27 Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (Southwark England), born in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales (d. 1995)
• May 27 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, born in Berlin (d. 1951)
• May 28 Gordon Wolstenholme, British physician (Ciba Foundation), born in Sheffield, England (d. 2004)
• May 29 Douglas Black, Scottish physician and medical scientist (played a key role in the development of the National Health Service), born in Delting, Shetland (d. 2002)
• May 31 Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
• Jun 1 Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
• Jun 2 Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye), (d. 1980)
• Jun 3 Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
• Jun 6 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, born in Krhanice, Czech Republic (d. 1993)
• Jun 6 Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, born in Pescara, Italy (d. 1991)
• Jun 7 Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist
• Jun 8 Graham Watson, British-born literary agent (Curtis Brown)
• Jun 8 Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, born in Berlin (d. 1998)
• Jun 9 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army
• Jun 9 Patrick Steptoe, English scientist (developed in vitro fertilization), born in Oxford, England (d. 1988)
• Jun 10 Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
• Jun 10 Wilbur J. Cohen, American pioneer of social security, worked on the New Deal, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Jun 11 John Elliott Terry, British film financier (National Film Finance Corp) (d. 1995)
• Jun 12 Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general, born in Sainte-Monique-de-Nicolet, Quebec (d. 1996)
• Jun 13 Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), born in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape (d. 1989)
• Jun 15 Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman (Anti-Apartheid)
• Jun 17 Felix Hartlaub, German historian and writer, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1945)
• Jun 18 Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book)
• Jun 22 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Polish lawyer (Solidarity)
• Jun 23 Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa)
• Jun 23 William P. Rogers, American Republican politician and US secretary of state (1969-73), born in Norfolk, New York (d. 2001)
• Jun 24 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
• Jun 26 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist and inventor (stored program concept for computers), born in Dudley, England (d. 2010)
• Jun 26 Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician, born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique (d. 2008)
• Jun 28 Walter Oesau, German fighter pilot (WWII), born in Farnewinkel, Germany (d. 1944)
• Jun 30 Alfonso López Michelsen, 24th President of Colombia (1974-78), born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 2007)
• Jul 1 Jo Sinclair [Ruth Seid], American writer (Wasteland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1995)
• Jul 3 Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, British Royal Navy officer, born in Inverness, Scotland (d. 1996)
• Jul 3 William Deakin, British historian and warden (St Anthony's College Oxford), born in London (d. 2005)
• Jul 10 Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet, born in Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain (d. 1985)
• Jul 11 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, American sci-fi author (Space Lords)
• Jul 11 Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
• Jul 12 Willis Lamb, American physicist (Nobel 1955), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2008)
• Jul 13 Walter Landor, designer
• Jul 13 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Hellerup Denmark, Danish shipping magnate, (d. 2012)
• Jul 14 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)

• Jul 14 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
• Jul 15 Ralph Hammond Innes, English author
• Jul 15 Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
• Jul 16 Hugh Ford, British mechanic engineer, born in Northampton, England (d. 2010)
• Jul 17 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
• Jul 17 Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
• Jul 18 Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede), born in Broek op Langedijk, Netherlands (d. 1994)
• Jul 23 Michael Foot, British politician (L) and writer, Leader of the Opposition (1980-83), born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 2010)
• Jul 25 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1995)
• Jul 27 Eva Jones, German poet and novelist (Taboo), born in Berlin (d. 1996)
• Jul 27 Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School), born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (d. 2004)
• Jul 27 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria), born in Luino, Italy (d. 1983)
• Jul 27 George L. Street III, American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2000)
• Jul 29 Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
• Aug 4 Robert Hayden, African-American poet (Those Winter Sundays), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1980)
• Aug 8 Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author
• Aug 8 Robert Stafford, American politician (Sen-R-VT, 1971-88), born in Rutland, Vermont (d. 2006)
• Aug 9 Herman Talmadge, American politician (70th Governor of Georgia), born in McRae, Georgia (d. 2002)
• Aug 11 Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)
• Aug 13 Albert Oram, Baron Oram, British Labour politician, born in Winchester, England (d. 1999)
• Aug 13 Makarios III [Michail Moeskos], Greek Cypriot clergyman and politician, born in Panayia, Paphos, Cyprus (d. 1977)

• Aug 17 Mark Felt, American FBI official and Watergate secret informant known as "Deep Throat", born in Twin Falls, Idaho (d. 2008)
• Aug 19 Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
• Aug 19 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
• Aug 21 Victor Rosow, Russian dramatist, born in Yaroslavl (d. 2004)
• Aug 22 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, born in Marina di Pisa, Italy (d. 1993)
• Aug 22 Robert Martineau, British bishop of Blackburn (d. 1999)
• Aug 23 Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
• Aug 25 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
• Aug 26 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier
• Aug 27 Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID, born in Ashton Upon Mersey, England (d. 1995)
• Aug 27 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, born in Oban, Scotland (d. 1994)
• Aug 27 Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
• Aug 28 Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist essayist/dramatist, born in Thamesville, Ontario (d. 1995)
• Aug 28 John Terence Reese, British bridge master, born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 1996)
• Aug 30 Thomas F. Torrance, Scottish Protestant theologist, born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China (d. 2007)
• Aug 31 Michiel P Gorsira, 1st Dutch Antillean in charge of Curacao (1951-67)
• Aug 31 Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank Observatory, born in Oldland Common, Bristol (d. 2012)
• Sep 1 Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
• Sep 4 Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), born in Chicago (d. 1982)
• Sep 4 Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1976)
• Sep 5 Connie Stuart [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer, born in Wijhe, Netherlands (d. 2010)
• Sep 7 Oswald Szemerényi, Hungarian linguist, born in London (d. 1996)
• Sep 7 Wim van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer and KVP politician (State Secretary of Economic Affairs), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1994)
• Sep 10 Zephania] Mothopeng, South African activist, President of the Pan-African Congress, born near Vrede, South Africa (d. 1990)
• Sep 12 Ben Polak, Dutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1993)
• Sep 12 Kenneth Lo, cookery writer and restaurateur, born in Foochow, China (d. 1995)
• Sep 14 Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA, born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (d. 1971)
• Sep 15 Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
• Sep 15 John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
• Sep 21 Ulrich Ernst Simon, German-Jewish Anglican theologian, born in Berlin (d. 1997)
• Sep 26 Ernst Schnabel, German writer and pioneer of the radio documentary, born in Zittau, Germany (d. 1986)
• Sep 27 Albert Ellis, American psychologist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)

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