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 18, 1913 – A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- January 30, 1913 – The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- February 5, 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- February 6, 1913 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 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 12, 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
- April 24, 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
- May 30, 1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- June 19, 1913 – Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
- June 25, 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 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.
- August 13, 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- August 16, 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
- November 6, 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- December 15, 1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
- December 24, 1913 – The Italian Hall Disaster (“1913 Massacre”) in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children.
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