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1 Events
1.1 January
Main article: January 1913
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2 1 EVENTS
iled to Siberia.[5]
1.3 March
Main article: March 1913
c. March 1 British steamship Calvados disappears March 17 The Military Aviation Academy (Es-
in the Sea of Marmara with 200 on board.[6][7] cuela de Aviacin Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to
become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Area Mili-
March 3 The Woman surage parade of 1913 tar) on 4 December 1952. The Uruguayan Air Force
takes place in Washington, D.C. led by Inez Milhol- (FAU) would grow from this foundation.
land on horseback.
March 18 George I of Greece is assassinated after
March 4 50 years on the throne. He is succeeded by his son
Woodrow Wilson is sworn in as President of Constantine.
the United States.
March 20 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chi-
The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. nese nationalist party (Kuomintang), is wounded in
Department of Labor are established by split- an assassination attempt and dies two days later.
ting the duties of the 10-year-old Department
of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, March 23 Supporters of Phan Xch Long begin
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and an attempt to revolt against colonial rule in French
Geodetic Survey form part of the Department Indochina.
of Commerce.
March 25 Great Dayton Flood after four days of
rain in the Miami Valley kills over 360 and destroys
March 46 First Balkan War: Battle of Bizani: 20,000 homes, chiey in Dayton.
Forces of the Kingdom of Greece capture the forts
of Bizani (covering the approaches to Ioannina) March 26
from the Ottoman Empire.
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza an-
March 7 The British freighter Alum Chine, car- nounces his Plan of Guadalupe and begins his
rying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's govern-
harbour.[8] ment as head of the Constitutionals.
1.6 June 3
Balkan Wars: Siege of Adrianople ends when May 14 New York Governor William Sulzer ap-
Bulgarian forces take Adrianople from the Ot- proves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation,
tomans. which begins operations with a $100,000,000 dona-
tion from John D. Rockefeller.
1.5 May
Main article: May 1913
May 29: The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
May 9July 11 Major industrial strike in the Main article: June 1913
Black Country of England involving 25,000 work-
ers, threatening preparations for World War I in
naval and steel industries. The workers demand 23 June 1 The GreekSerbian Treaty of Alliance is
shillings minimum wage. signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
4 1 EVENTS
Battle of Bud Bagsak: Armed with guns and August 20 After his airplane fails at an altitude of
heavy artillery, U.S. and Philippine troops un- 900 feet (270 m), aviator Adolphe Pgoud becomes
der General John J. Black Jack Pershing the rst person to bail out to safety from an airplane
ght a four-day battle against 500 Moro rebels and land safely.[15]
who are armed mostly with kampilan swords.
The rebels are killed in a nal desperate charge August 23 The statue The Little Mermaid in
on June 15. Copenhagen, Denmark, is nished.
September 17 In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation October 11 The Philadelphia Athletics win the de-
League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund ciding game of the 1913 World Series, over base-
Livingston as its rst president. balls New York Giants, winning 31 to take the se-
ries in ve games.
September 23 French aviator Roland Garros
crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane ying from October 14 Senghenydd colliery disaster: An ex-
Frjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia. plosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in
South Wales kills 439 miners, the worst mining ac-
September 29 Second Balkan War: The Treaty cident in the United Kingdom.[14]
of Constantinople is signed in Istanbul between the
Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. October 16 The British Royal Navy's HMS Queen
Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the
rst oil-red battleship.[17]
1.10 October
Main article: October 1913 October 18 The Monument to the Battle of the
Nations at Leipzig in Germany is nished.
Lloyd Bridges
Edward Gierek
January 15
Eugne Brands, Dutch painter (d. 2002)
Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
Alexander Marinesko, Soviet naval ocer (d.
1963)
January 17 Everett Parker, American civil rights
activist (d. 2015)
January 18 George Unwin, British ghter ace of
WWII (d. 2006)
January 22
Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and
psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and
publisher (d. 2003)
January 23
Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
Wally Parks, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007)
Richard Nixon
January 25
Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China (d.
January 9 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the
2010)
United States (d. 1994)
Witold Lutosawski, Polish composer (d.
January 10 Gustv Husk, Slovak politician (d. 1994)
1991) January 29
January 11 Karl Stegger, Danish actor (d. 1980) Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
8 2 BIRTHS
Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer February 19 Frank Tashlin, American animation
(d. 2001) director (d. 1972)
February 2 Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. February 20 Tommy Henrich, American baseball
1985) player (d. 2009)
February 25
Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
Gert Frbe, German actor (Goldnger) (d.
1988)
February 26 George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
February 27
T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, drama-
tist, actor and politician (d. 1992)
Paul Ricur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
Kazimierz Sabbat, leader of Polish
government-in-exile (d. 1989)
Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
2.2 MarchApril
Rosa Parks
February 4
February 10
William Casey, American Central Intelligence Benedict J. Semmes, Jr., American admiral (d.
Agency director (d. 1987) 1994)
Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
(d. 2009)
April 10 Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
March 15 Rosita Contreras, Argentine actress (d.
1962) April 11 Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer
(d. 2006)
March 18
April 11 Winifred Drinkwater, Scottish aviator
Ren Clment, French lm director (d. 1996) and rst woman to hold a commercial pilots license
Werner Mlders, German ghter pilot (d. (d. 1996)
1941) April 14 Jean Fournet, French conductor (d.
March 19 Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
2008) April 16 Les Tremayne, British-born American
March 21 George Abecassis, English race car actor (d. 2003)
driver (d. 1991)
April 18 Jack Pope, American judge, attorney, and
March 26 author (d. 2017)
Paul Erds, Hungarian mathematician (d. April 21 Richard Beeching, Chairman of British
1996) Rail (d. 1985)
Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist (d. April 27 Philip Hauge Abelson, American physi-
2010) cist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)
March 29 R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013) May 16 Woody Herman, American musician and
Florence S. Jacobsen, American mormon band leader (d. 1987)
leader (d. 2017) May 19 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician
Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007) and 6th President of India (d. 1996)
April 8 May 20
Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese political g- Teodoro Fernndez, Peruvian soccer player (d.
ure, 2nd President of Dahomey (d. 1989) 1996)
10 2 BIRTHS
William Hewlett, American businessman (d. Franz Antel, Austrian lmmaker (d. 2007)
2001)
Maldwyn James, Welsh international rugby
May 22 Benedict Garmisa, American politician (d. union player (d. 2003)
1985)
June 30 Alfonso Lpez Michelsen, President of
May 24 Peter Ellenshaw, American matte designer Colombia (d. 2007)
(d. 2007)
June 11
June 18
June 26
July 12
July 13
July 3 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper Roger Garaudy, French Holocaust denier (d.
columnist (d. 1965) 2012)
Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d.
July 4 Barbara Weeks, American actress (d. 2003) 1997)
July 5 Smiley Lewis, American New Orleans July 18
rhythm and blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
N. Krishnaswami Reddy, Indian lawyer (d.
July 6 Vance Trimble, American Pulitzer Prize- 2002)
winning journalist and author
Du Runsheng, Chinese military ocer, politi-
July 7 cian, and economist (d. 2015)
Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
2011) July 19 Fred Agnich, American politician (d.
Lu Ann Meredith, American actress (d. 1998) 2004)
July 8 July 22
Paulus and Pierre Langerock, Belgian super- Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and song-
centenarians writer (d. 1995)
Bill Thompson, American voice actor (d. Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano (d.
1971) 2014)
July 9 William M. Zachacki, (d. 1969) July 23 Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
12 2 BIRTHS
July 30 Lou Darvas, American artist and cartoonist Rudy York, American baseball player (d.
(d. 1987) 1970)
August 28
September 13
September 14
September 24
September 29
2.7 November
Albert Camus
November 7
Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize lau-
reate (d. 1960)
Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian
Burt Lancaster sculptor (d. 2009)
November 10 lvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politi-
November 2 Burt Lancaster, American actor, bet- cian (d. 2005)
ter known for his role in Elmer Gantry (d. 1994)
November 13 Alexander Scourby, American actor
November 3 (d. 1985)
Marika Rkk, Egyptian-born Austrian singer, November 15 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d.
dancer and actress (d. 2004) 2005)
Antony Mitradas, Indian lm director (d. November 16 Ellen Albertini Dow, American ac-
2017) tress (d. 2015)
November 5 Vivien Leigh, British actress, better November 18 Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French
known for her role in Gone With The Wind (d. 1967) painter (d. 1999)
2.8 December 15
Benjamin Britten
Mary Martin
November 21
November 22
2.8 December
December 1 Mary Martin, American actress (d.
1990)
Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, in- December 8 Delmore Schwartz, American poet
ventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthu- (d. 1966)
siast (d. 2002)
Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004) December 10
16 3 DEATHS
December 18
December 25
December 28
3 Deaths
3.1 JanuaryJune
J. P. Morgan
January 2 Lon Teisserenc de Bort, French mete-
orologist (b. 1855)
January 4 Alfred von Schlieen, German eld January 16 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aero-
marshal (b. 1833) naut, scientist and inventor (b. 1832)
3.1 JanuaryJune 17
Hugo Winckler
Nicolas de Pierola
January 20 Jos Guadalupe Posada, Mexican po-
litical printmaker and engraver (b. 1852) March 25 Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolse-
ley, British eld marshal (b. 1833)
January 27 Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria,
statesman, former Prime Minister (b. 1832) March 31 J. P. Morgan, American nancier and
February 2 Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and banker (b. 1837)
inventor (b. 1845) April 19 Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist
February 17 Edward Stanley Gibbons, English and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hit-
philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. tite Empire (Hattusa) (b. 1863)
1840)
May 1 John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and
February 22 U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and May 6 Elena Guro, Russian painter and writer (b.
semiotician (b. 1857) 1877)
Francisco I. Madero, 33rd President of Mex- May 16 Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Fed-
ico (b. 1873) eral Council (b. 1849)
February 26 Felix Draeseke, German composer May 25 Alfred Redl, Austrian military intelligence
(b. 1835) ocer and double agent (b. 1864; honorable sui-
March 10 Harriet Tubman, African-American cide)
abolitionist, humanitarian and spy (b. c. 1822)
June 2 Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b.
March 11 John Shaw Billings, American military 1835)
and medical leader (b. 1838)
June 5 Chris von der Ahe, German-born American
March 18 King George I of Greece (b. 1845) brewer and baseball owner (b. 1851)
March 22 Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary June 8 Emily Davison, English suragette (b.
(b. 1882) 1872)
18 3 DEATHS
Climaco Calderon
3.2 JulyDecember
August 7 Samuel Franklin Cody, Ameri- September 29 Rudolf Diesel, German engine in-
can/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867) ventor (b. 1858)
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December 7
4 Nobel Prizes
Emperor Menelik II
[6] Over 200 Lost in Storm. The New York Times. 1913-
03-08.
[8] Ship Blows Up. The New York Times. 1913-03-08. Re-
trieved 2012-10-19.
[11] Illies.
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