1913: On this day in history

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Birthdays

January 2 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
January 4 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (d.2007)
January 6 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
January 6 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
January 7 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
January 9 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
January 10 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
January 10 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
January 13 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
January 15 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
January 15 - Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine
January 18 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
January 19 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
January 19 - "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
January 22 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
January 22 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
January 24 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
January 25 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
January 25 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
January 26 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
January 29 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
January 29 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
January 29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
January 30 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
January 31 - Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
February 2 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
February 3 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
February 4 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
February 6 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
February 8 - Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)
February 14 - Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
February 14 - Woody Hayes, American college football coach (d. 1987)
February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (disappeared 1975)
February 15 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
February 19 - Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (d. 2007)
February 21 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
February 22 - Buddy Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)
February 25 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
February 25 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
February 26 - George Barker, English poet (d. 1991)
February 27 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
February 27 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
March 1 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)
March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (d. 1971)
March 2 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
March 2 - Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1958)
March 4 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
March 4 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
March 4 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
March 13 - William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
March 13 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
March 13 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer
March 15 - MacDonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
March 15 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
March 18 - René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
March 18 - Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot (d. 1941)
March 18 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
March 21 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
March 21 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (d. 1957)
March 22 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
March 22 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
March 25 - Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
March 26 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
March 27 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
March 29 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
March 30 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
March 30 - Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
March 30 - Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
March 30 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta
April 3 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
April 4 - Frances Langford, American actress (d. 2005)
April 4 - Jules Léger, Quebec diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980)
April 7 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
April 10 - Stefan Heym, German author (d. 2001)
April 11 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
May 1 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
May 1 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
May 2 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
May 3 - William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973)
May 4 - Lady Katherine Brandram, née Princess of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
May 6 - Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989)
May 6 - Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993)
May 8 - Bob Clampett, American animator (d. 1984)
May 11 - Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
May 13 - William R. Tolbert, Jr.
May 13 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
May 16 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
May 17 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
May 18 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (d. 2000)
May 18 - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
May 18 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (d. 1996)
May 20 - William Hewlett, American engineer (d. 2001)
May 21 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
May 23 - Ruth Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico,
May 25 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
May 26 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
May 27 - Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
May 29 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
June 1 - Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
June 2 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
June 2 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
June 3 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
June 6 - Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
June 11 - Risë Stevens, American operatic soprano
June 12 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
June 13 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
June 14 - Joe Morris, C.C.
June 18 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
June 18 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
June 25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
June 26 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
June 27 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
June 28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
June 28 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
June 30 - Harry Wismer, owner of the New York Jets (d. 1967)
June 30 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
July 1 - Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
July 3 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
July 5 - Smiley Lewis, American musician (d. 1966)
July 7 - Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
July 10 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
July 11 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
July 12 - Willis Lamb, American physicist
July 13 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)
July 13 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate
July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
July 15 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
July 15 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
July 15 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
July 17 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
July 18 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
July 22 - Licia Albanese, American opera singer
July 22 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
July 23 - Michael Foot, English politician
July 27 - Gérard Côté, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993)
July 27 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner, (d. 2000)
July 29 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
July 31 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian hockey player (d. 1984)
August 3 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007)
August 4 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
August 7 - George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
August 10 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist
August 10 - Noah Beery, Jr.
August 11 - Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)
August 11 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
August 11 - Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
August 13 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
August 13 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)
August 14 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
August 16 - Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel
August 17 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
August 17 - Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
August 17 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
August 18 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
August 19 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
August 19 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer
August 20 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist
August 22 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
August 25 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
August 25 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
August 27 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
August 28 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
August 28 - Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
August 28 - Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
August 28 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
August 29 - Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
August 30 - Richard Stone, British economist Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
August 31 - Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
September 1 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1979)
September 1 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
September 2 - Bill Shankly, English Football Manager (d. 1981)
September 3 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
September 4 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
September 4 - Stanford Moore, American chemist
September 7 - Anthony Quayle, British actor and director (d. 1989)
September 11 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
September 15 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
September 15 - Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d.1994)
September 19 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
September 23 - Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist
September 26 - Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
September 27 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
September 28 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
September 29 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
September 29 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
September 30 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
October 2 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
October 5 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner, (d. 2007)
October 7 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
October 10 - Claude Simon, French writer
October 11 - Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (d. 2000)
October 18 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
October 19 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
October 20 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
October 22 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
October 22 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
October 22 - Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954)
October 22 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
October 24 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
October 25 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
October 26 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
November 2 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
November 4 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
November 5 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
November 7 - Albert Camus, French writer
November 8 - June Havoc, American actress
November 9 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
November 13 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (d. 2003)
November 13 - Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (d. 1985)
November 13 - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
November 13 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
November 15 - Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
November 15 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
November 18 - Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999)
November 20 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
November 21 - Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
November 22 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
November 22 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
November 24 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
November 25 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
December 1 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
December 4 - Mark Robson, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1978)
December 6 - Karl Haas, German-American music educator (d. 2005)
December 6 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
December 8 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
December 10 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
December 10 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
December 11 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
December 13 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
December 13 - Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
December 14 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
December 15 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist
December 15 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
December 18 - Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
December 18 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany
December 18 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
December 25 - Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
December 26 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
December 28 - Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor
December 30 - Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
December 30 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)

Deaths

January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
January 6 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
January 7 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
February 26 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
March 7 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
March 10 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
March 18 - King George I of Greece, (b. 1845)
March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
March 31 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
May 1 - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
May 16 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
June 22 - Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
June 28 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
July 7 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
July 8 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
July 19 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
July 29 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
September 30 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
October 1 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
October 10 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
October 10 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
October 31 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
December 7 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
December 12 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia, (b. 1844)

Events

January 5 - 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 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University as the second Black Greek Letter Organization for Women. The mission was to make a move towards social activism.
January 14 - First Balkan War: The Greek army defeats the Turks at Bizani.
January 17 - Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
January 18 - 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 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
February 2 - Grand Central Station was opened in New York City.
February 3 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
February 17 - 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.
February 18 - Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
February 20 - King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
March 3 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria
March 8 - The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect federal income taxes, as provided for under the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Federal income taxes had previously been collected from 1864-1872.
March 12 - Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.)
March 17 - The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
March 18 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
March 21 - Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.
March 28 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
April 4 - The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
April 8 - The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
April 24 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
May 14 - 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 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
May 30 - First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
June 4 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
June 15 - The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes.
June 24 - Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
June 25 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
July 3 - 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 4 - President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
July 10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
July 31 - The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
August 3 - Wheatland Hop Riot
August 10 - Second Balkan War ends: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
August 13 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
August 16 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
August 28 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
October 10 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
October 14 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
October 29 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
October 31 - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
November 3 - The United States introduces an income tax.
November 5 - King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
November 6 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
November 25 - Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
November 26 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
December 1 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
December 1 - Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the first Balkan war, is annexed by Greece.
December 15 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 21 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
December 23 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.

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