1913 Events

1913 Al Capone Expelled From School
Al did quite well in school until the sixth grade when his steady record of B's deteriorated rapidly. At fourteen, he lost his temper at the teacher, she hit him and he hit her back. He...
1913 Albert Einstein works on new Theory of Gravity
By 1912 Einstein was hot on the heels of a new theory of gravity that would incorporate his strong equivalence principle. By calling on this principle, he realized, he could avoid dealing...
1913 Fagus Factory Constructed
The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus Fabrik or Fagus Werk) is a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine in Germany, an important example of early modern architecture. Commissioned by owner C...
1913 Frida Kahlo is Diagnosed with Polio
Frida had three sisters, and though her status as daddy’s favorite set her apart from the others, her affliction with polio beginning in 1913 would forever mark her as different. After sh...
1913 Henri La Fontaine Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peac...
1913 Houdini Begins Performing Upside-Down Straitjacket Escapes
One of Houdini's most popular publicity stunts was to have himself strapped into a regulation straitjacket and suspended by his ankles from a tall building or crane. Houdini would then ma...
1913 Rabindranath Tagore Becomes the First Asian to be Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poe...
1913 Tesla Patents Bladeless Turbine
Tesla's patents state that the device was intended for the use of fluids as motive agents, as distinguished from the application of the same for the propulsion or compression of fluids (t...
1913 Wright's Second Trip to Japan; Wright As an "Art Dealer"
Returning to Japan in the spring of 1913, it was clear this time that Wright’s intentions were to spend the full 2-month period solely in the earnest pursuit of Japanese woodblocks. Towar...
1913 Jan 9 Richard Nixon is Born
Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, to Francis A. Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon in a house his father had built in Yorba Linda, California. His mother was a Quaker, and his upbrin...
1913 Feb 3 The Sixteenth Amendment is ratified
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results...
1913 Feb 4 Rosa Parks born
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher.
1913 Mar 4 First Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as 28th US President
Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address THERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It ...
1913 Mar 10 Harriet Tubman Dies
Before she died on March 10, 1913, she gave her home for the elderly to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Tubman was buried with military rites in Fort Hill Cemetery, a short drive fro...
1913 Mar 10 Quebec Bulldogs win Stanley Cup
The 1912–13 NHA season was the fourth season of the now defunct National Hockey Association. Six teams played 20 games each. The Quebec Bulldogs won the league championship to retain the ...
1913 Mar 17 Franklin D. Roosevelt Sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He served under Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. In 1914, he was defeated in the Demo...
1913 Apr 8 The Seventeenth Amendment is ratified
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911, the House of Representatives on May 13, 1912, and ratified by the s...
1913 May 3 William M. Inge Is Born
Playwright William M. Inge was born in Independence, Kansas on May 3, 1913. Inge wrote several hit plays including Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, and Picnic, for which he won a Pulit...
1913 Jul 14 Leslie Lynch King Jr. (Gerald Ford) is Born
Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. His father was Leslie Lynch ...
1913 Sep 9 Helgoland Island Air Disaster
The Helgoland Island Air Disaster occurred on September 9, 1913, and is traditionally considered the first air disaster involving more than ten fatalities. A German Navy Zeppelin L-1 airs...
1913 Sep 12 James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens is born
The tenth child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Danville, Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family...
1913 Sep 29 Stanley Kramer is Born
Stanley Earl Kramer (29 September 1913 – 19 February 2001) was an American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films i...
1913 Oct 7
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 1913 World Series
In the 1913 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants four games to one. The A's pitching gave the edge to a closer-than-it-looked Series in 1913. The great Chris...
1913 Oct 14 Senghenydd Explosion
The worst pit-disaster of the 20th century occurred at the Universal, Senghennydd on 14 October 1913. More than 400 men were trapped underground by an explosion and fire. It ripped throug...
1913 Nov 6 Gandhi Begins "Great March" to Gain Indian Rights in South Africa
Led at 6.30.a.m. the "great march", consisting of 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children from Charlestown; addressed marchers halfway between Charlestown and Volksrust. At Volksrust border,...
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 Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Anyone living in the Great Lakes Region for an extended period of time can become all too familiar with the incredible storms, or low pressure areas, that can settle over the Great Lakes ...
1913 Nov 7 AEPi Fraternity is founded
AEPi was founded in 1913 under the Washington Square Arch at New York University (NYU) by Charles C. Moskowitz and 10 other Jewish men: David K. Schafer, Isador M. Glazer, Herman L. Kraus...
1913 Dec 23 President Woodrow Wilson Signs The Owen-Glass Act
On December 23, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Owen-Glass Act, creating the Federal Reserve System. The first major banking reform to follow the Civil War, the Federal Reser...
1913 Dec 24 Fifty-nine Children killed in Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan
A once-thriving mining town in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula is still haunted by the tragic events that inspired Woody Guthrie's song "1913 Massacre." In Calumet, the past has been...
1913 Dec 31 Louis Armstrong arrested for firing a gun
Armstrong developed his cornet playing seriously in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he had been sent multiple times for general delinquency, most notably for a l...