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 17, 1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- February 2, 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
- 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 20, 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- March 4, 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
- 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.
- May 29, 1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- June 19, 1913 – Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
- June 24, 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 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.
- July 31, 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- August 13, 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
- August 16, 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
- 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 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
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