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1913
1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar)
Events
January-March
April-September
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April 8 - Passing of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, dictating the direct election of senators.
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April 24 - Woolworth Building opening ceremony.
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May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft.
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May 14 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.
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May 29 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris
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May 30 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war.
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June - First edition of the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in the United States; still issued bimonthly till today.
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June 4 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
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June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre : US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines.
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June 24 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
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July 3 - Commemeration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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July 10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004).
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August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield.
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August 20 - 700 feet above Buc , France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
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September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean
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September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears enroute to Britain
October-December
unknown dates
Births
January-February
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January 6 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
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January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (d. 1994)
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January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
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January 18 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
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January 24 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
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January 29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
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February 4 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
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February 6 - Mary Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)
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February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdysiast (d. 1970)
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February 11 - Lucio Diestro , composer
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February 13 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
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February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (d. 1975 - disappeared)
- February 14 - Mel Allen, sports reporter (d. 1996)
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February 25 - Gert Fröbe , actor (d. 1988)
- February 25 - Jim Backus, actor (d. 1989)
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February 27 - Irwin Shaw, writer (d. 1984)
March-August
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March 4 - John Garfield, actor (d. 1952)
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March 13 - William Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1987)
- March 13 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer; wrote lyrics to the Soviet and Russian national anthems
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March 18 - René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
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March 21 - George Abecassis, English Formula One driver (d. 1991)
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March 29 - Tony Zale, world champion boxer (d. 1997)
- March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
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March 30 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002)
- March 30 - Frankie Laine, singer
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April 3 - Per Borten, former Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
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April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, physicist co-discoverer of Neptunium (d. 2004)
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May 1 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
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May 8 - Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
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May 11 - Robert Jungk, publicist and futurologist (d. 1994)
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May 16 - Woody Herman, musician, band leader (d. 1987)
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May 20 - William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
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May 26 - Peter Cushing, British actor (d. 1994)
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June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Soviet composer
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June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
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June 18 – Robert Mondavi, leading American wine maker
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June 25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
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June 28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
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July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
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July 22 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
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August 8 - John Facenda, voice of NFL Films (d. 1984)
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August 17 - Rudy York, Major League Baseball All-Star (d. 1970)
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August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
- August 28 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
September-December
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September 5 - Frank Thomas, Disney animator (d. 2004)
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September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
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September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (d. 1971)
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September 19 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
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September 15 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
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September 29 - Stanley Kramer, Academy Award Winning Movie Producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
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September 29 - Trevor Howard, actor (d. 1988)
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September 29 - Silvio Piola, all-time highest Serie A goalscorer (d. 1996)
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September 30 - Bill Walsh, movie producer and writer (d. 1975)
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November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor (d. 1994)
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November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
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November 7 - Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
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November 10 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist politician
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November 21 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001)
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November 22 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
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December 6 - Eleanor Holm - American swimmer (d. 2004)
Deaths
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January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
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January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist
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February 26 - Felix Draeseke, German composer
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March 10 - Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist
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March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of KMT
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March 31 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker
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June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, brewer, baseball owner
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July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero
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October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter
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December 12 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia
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Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist
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