1913 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1913?
- January 30, 1913 – The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- February 6, 1913 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- March 18, 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- March 28, 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- April 8, 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
- April 24, 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
- 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.
- June 1, 1913 – The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
- June 4, 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
- June 24, 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 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 31, 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- 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 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
- October 9, 1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- October 31, 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
- December 1, 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
- 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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