1913 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1913?
- January 5, 1913 – First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
- January 13, 1913 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- January 30, 1913 – The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- February 2, 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
- February 6, 1913 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
- February 18, 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
- March 21, 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- March 26, 1913 – Balkan War: Bulgarian forces invade Adrianople.
- May 14, 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
- July 3, 1913 – 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.
- July 10, 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- July 12, 1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
- August 3, 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- August 10, 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
- October 10, 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
- October 31, 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
- December 14, 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Sclass Kongō, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
- December 15, 1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
- December 21, 1913 – Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
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