1913: On This Year

1913

1913 (MCMXIII in Roman Numerals) was the year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Is 1913 a year special to you? If so you may like to discover what 1913 was famous for, who won the Oscars and the Nobel Prizes in 1913, who was Time's Person of the Year in 1913, which books, music and movies were top of the charts in 1913, what Chinese zodiac sign is associated to 1913, what babynames were most popular that year, what was the World population on that year and what happend in 1913.

On this page we will address all your questions and curiosities about 1913 to help you enjoy your trip down memory lane.

history

What was 1913 known for ?

  • In 1913, one year before the start of World War One, the militarization of Europe reached its fateful crescendo and the world population clocked in at just over 1.8 billion people. Woodrow Wilson took over as the President of the United States.
  • Some notable firsts occurred for the United States Postal Service, automobiles, the US constitution, minimum wage, baseball snacks, and kitchen appliances. Both Harriet Tubman and Alfred Russel Wallace passed away this year.
    In happier news, 1913 gave birth to President Nixon, the Country of Albania, President Ford, and football legend Vince Lombardi.
  • It was a different time for the media. In terms of popular culture, the most popular books were The Student of Prague and Fantomas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine. The silver screen saw Tarzan return in aptly named The Return of Tarzan and the first screening of O Pioneers.
  • While commonly seen as the kick-off to World War One, 1913 had a lot more to it than that. To begin with, the United States saw a lot of legal and constitutional changes. The ratification of the 16th amendment allowed for the creation of the first income tax. Later that year, the 17th amendment, which required direct election of senators, passed into law. In addition to the amendments, the state of Oregon passed the first minimum wage law, the US Postal Office made its first parcelpost deliveries, and Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.
    In other countries, including India, worldwide protests ensued against unfair governments; Gandhi featured heavily in some of these uprisings.
  • With the introduction of Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp at the NY Armory Show, the United States received a boost in the arts. On February 15th, baseball snacks changed forever: Cracker Jack inserted its first prize into its boxes.
  • In terms of major inventions, this year had two: Igor Sikorsky’s first four-engine aircraft and the August 14thcreation of stainless steel. If you love your newly redesigned kitchen, or happen to love Tarzan, 1913 gave you something to smile about.

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1913: What was the Chinese Zodiac sign associated with the year 1913?


According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1913 was the Year of the Ox.

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Nobel Prize

1913: Nobel Prize Winners of the Year


1913: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1913 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Henri La Fontaine

1913: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1913 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Rabindranath Tagore

1913: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1913 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1913: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1913 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Alfred Werner

1913: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1913 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Charles Richet
world population

1913: What were the most popular baby names in the USA that year ?

The 3 most popular baby names in 1913 were John, William and James for boys and Mary, Helen and Dorothy for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1913: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1913 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • John
  • William
  • James
  • Robert
  • Joseph
  • George
  • Charles
  • Edward
  • Frank
  • Thomas

1913: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1913 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • Mary
  • Helen
  • Dorothy
  • Margaret
  • Ruth
  • Mildred
  • Anna
  • Elizabeth
  • Frances
  • Marie

vinyl songs

1913: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1913, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Want to Do It by Al Jolson

1913: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1913 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

  1. You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Want to Do It by Al Jolson
  2. Row! Row! Row! by Ada Jones
  3. Sweethearts by Christie MacDonald
  4. That Old Girl of Mine by American Quartet
  5. Where the River Shannon Flows by John McCormack
  6. Because by Enrico Caruso
  7. Nobody by Bert Williams
  8. Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) by Fritz Kreisler
  9. My Wild Irish Rose by Chauncey Olcott
  10. A Perfect Day by Elsie Baker

1913: What were the most popular movies that year ?

The most popular movies and box office hits in 1913 were:

Suspense

Suspense

Release year: 1913

Directed by: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber

Starring: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman

Atlantis

Atlantis

Release year: 1913

Directed by: August Blom

Starring: Olaf Fønss, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen

Country: United States of America

Traffic in Souls

Traffic in Souls

Release year: 1913

Directed by: George Loane Tucker

Starring: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore

Country: United States of America

An Old Man's Love Story

An Old Man's Love Story

Release year: 1913

Directed by: Van Dyke Brooke

Starring: James Lackaye, Florence Radinoff, Norma Talmadge, Van Dyke Brooke

A Fishy Affair

A Fishy Affair

Release year: 1913

Directed by: Mack Sennett

Starring: Ford Sterling, Laura Oakley, Nick Cogley, Dot Farley

history

What happened in 1913?

Here's what happened in 1913:

  • Jan 1, 1913: Post office begins parcel post deliveries.
  • Jan 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.
  • Jan 7, 1913: William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum.
  • Jan 8, 1913: Frank Chance becomes New York Yankees manager.
  • Jan 11, 1913: Bread and Roses Strike begins.
  • Jan 13, 1913: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated is founded on the campus of Howard University as the second Black Greek Letter Organization for Women. The mission is to make a move towards social activism.
  • Jan 16, 1913: British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland.
  • Jan 17, 1913: Raymond Poincare is elected President of France.
  • Jan 18, 1913: Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy.
  • Jan 21, 1913: Aristide Briand forms French government.
  • Jan 23, 1913: General election in Tasmania.
  • Jan 24, 1913: Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished.
  • Jan 26, 1913: Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro.
  • Jan 29, 1913: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates.
  • Jan 30, 1913: The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • Feb 2, 1913: New York football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
  • Feb 3, 1913: 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified.
  • Feb 4, 1913: National Institute of Arts and Letters founded.
  • Feb 5, 1913: Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • Feb 9, 1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
  • Feb 10, 1913: Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York City, New York.
  • Feb 13, 1913: Mexican Revolution: Begins the episode known as ''La Decena Trágica'', the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Madero.
  • Feb 16, 1913: President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico.
  • Feb 17, 1913: New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public.
  • Feb 18, 1913: French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel DuChamp displayed at Armory Show in New York City, New York.
  • Feb 19, 1913: Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support.
  • Feb 20, 1913: King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
  • Feb 21, 1913: Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • Feb 22, 1913: Mexican Revolution: Assassination of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez. Is succeeded by General Victoriano Huerta.
  • Feb 25, 1913: 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax.
  • Feb 28, 1913: 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic).
  • Mar 1, 1913: US Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment).
  • Mar 3, 1913: Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC.
  • Mar 4, 1913: Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President.
  • Mar 5, 1913: March 7 ampndash First Battle of Bud Dajo: American troops decisively defeat Moro rebels in the Philippines.
  • Mar 7, 1913: The British freighter ''Alum Chine'', carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbour.
  • Mar 8, 1913: Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes.
  • Mar 10, 1913: Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
  • Mar 12, 1913: Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid.
  • Mar 13, 1913: Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures.
  • Mar 14, 1913: John D Rockefeller gives US$100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.
  • Mar 15, 1913: Cleveland establishes first small claims court.
  • Mar 17, 1913: The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
  • Mar 18, 1913: King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
  • Mar 20, 1913: Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadalupe, and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government as head of the ''Constitutionals''.
  • Mar 21, 1913: Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
  • Mar 24, 1913: Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City.
  • Mar 25, 1913: Great Dayton Flood.
  • Mar 26, 1913: Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the first Balkan War.
  • Mar 28, 1913: Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • Apr 3, 1913: British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to three years in jail.
  • Apr 4, 1913: First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
  • Apr 8, 1913: 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
  • Apr 10, 1913: President Woodrow Wilson throws out first ball, Senators beat New York Yankees 2-1.
  • Apr 14, 1913: Belgium begins general strike for voting rights.
  • Apr 19, 1913: 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minnesota in 2:25:14.8.
  • Apr 21, 1913: Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper.
  • Apr 22, 1913: Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania.
  • Apr 24, 1913: The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
  • Apr 26, 1913: Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China.
  • Apr 29, 1913: Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper.
  • May 1, 1913: Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th Steet New York City, New York.
  • May 3, 1913: Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
  • May 6, 1913: King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania.
  • May 9, 1913: 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote.
  • May 10, 1913: 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8.
  • May 12, 1913: Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2).
  • May 13, 1913: Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a 4-engine aircraft.
  • May 14, 1913: French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands.
  • May 19, 1913: Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land in USA.
  • May 20, 1913: 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4.
  • May 29, 1913: Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
  • May 30, 1913: As managers who have won 1,000 games
  • May 31, 1913: Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6).
  • Jun 1, 1913: The Greek-Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
  • Jun 2, 1913: Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
  • Jun 3, 1913: Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
  • Jun 5, 1913: Dutch Disability laws go into effect
  • Jun 6, 1913: Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home three times.
  • Jun 8, 1913: The Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It has been constructed especially for the 1916 Summer Olympics, which are cancelled as a result of World War I.
  • Jun 13, 1913: 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
  • Jun 15, 1913: The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
  • Jun 16, 1913: South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
  • Jun 18, 1913: The Arab Congress of 1913 opened, during which Arab nationalists met to discuss desired reforms under the Ottoman Empire.
  • Jun 20, 1913: Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
  • Jun 21, 1913: Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
  • Jun 23, 1913: Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
  • Jun 24, 1913: 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
  • Jun 25, 1913: Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
  • Jun 29, 1913: 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek / Serbian troops
  • Jun 30, 1913: New York Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Philadelphia Phillies 11-1.
  • Jul 1, 1913: Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria
  • Jul 3, 1913: Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
  • Jul 4, 1913: 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
  • Jul 5, 1913: Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
  • Jul 7, 1913: British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
  • Jul 10, 1913: Romania declares war on Bulgaria
  • Jul 18, 1913: After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk.
  • Jul 20, 1913: Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
  • Jul 23, 1913: Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
  • Jul 25, 1913: Carl Weilman strikes out six times in a 15 inning game.
  • Jul 27, 1913: Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
  • Jul 28, 1913: 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
  • Jul 29, 1913: Albania becomes sovereignty under Prince Wilhelm von Wied
  • Jul 30, 1913: Conclusion of the second Balkan War.
  • Jul 31, 1913: The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
  • Aug 3, 1913: A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
  • Aug 4, 1913: In China, the province of Chungking declares independence Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
  • Aug 8, 1913: Richard Corfields Camel Corps opens Mad Mullah in Burao Somalia
  • Aug 10, 1913: 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
  • Aug 13, 1913: Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
  • Aug 16, 1913: Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
  • Aug 20, 1913: Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
  • Aug 22, 1913: Robert Martineau, Bishop of Blackburn
  • Aug 23, 1913: The statue of ''The Little Mermaid'' is unveiled in Copenhagen.
  • Aug 26, 1913: 33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
  • Aug 28, 1913: Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
  • Aug 29, 1913: Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
  • Aug 31, 1913: Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
  • Sep 1, 1913: George Bernard Shaws Androcles & the Lion, premieres in London
  • Sep 2, 1913: Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
  • Sep 6, 1913: 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
  • Sep 9, 1913: Association for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago.
  • Sep 10, 1913: 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens
  • Sep 14, 1913: 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
  • Sep 16, 1913: 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
  • Sep 17, 1913: In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.
  • Sep 20, 1913: 19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club, Massachusetts
  • Sep 21, 1913: Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
  • Sep 22, 1913: Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico.
  • Sep 23, 1913: Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
  • Sep 29, 1913: Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St, New York City
  • Oct 1, 1913: Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
  • Oct 3, 1913: Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%).
  • Oct 4, 1913: Brooklyn Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
  • Oct 7, 1913: Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
  • Oct 9, 1913: Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
  • Oct 10, 1913: British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
  • Oct 11, 1913: Philadelphia Athletics beat New York Giants, four games to one in 10th World Series.
  • Oct 13, 1913: Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
  • Oct 14, 1913: Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
  • Oct 15, 1913: Train crash in Liverpool during Black Week
  • Oct 16, 1913: Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St, New York City
  • Oct 18, 1913: Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave
  • Oct 19, 1913: The DLRG (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.
  • Oct 22, 1913: Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
  • Oct 24, 1913: Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
  • Oct 26, 1913: Huerta elected President of Mexico
  • Oct 27, 1913: President Wilson says US will never attack another country
  • Oct 31, 1913: Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
  • Nov 1, 1913: Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, first to use forward pass effectively.
  • Nov 2, 1913: St. Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
  • Nov 3, 1913: The United States introduces an income tax.
  • Nov 6, 1913: Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
  • Nov 7, 1913: 11 ampndash The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
  • Nov 9, 1913: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
  • Nov 13, 1913: 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
  • Nov 18, 1913: Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego).
  • Nov 26, 1913: Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
  • Nov 29, 1913: 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
  • Dec 1, 1913: Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2 38).
  • Dec 2, 1913: Archdiocese of Managua created.
  • Dec 8, 1913: Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
  • Dec 9, 1913: Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris.
  • Dec 10, 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel Prize for physics.
  • Dec 12, 1913: Mona Lisa, stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
  • Dec 13, 1913: Mona Lisa stolen in August 1911 returned to Louvre
  • Dec 14, 1913: Greece formally takes possession of Crete.
  • Dec 15, 1913: Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
  • Dec 16, 1913: Charlie Chaplin begins his film career at Keystone for $150 a week.
  • Dec 19, 1913: Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title.
  • Dec 21, 1913: 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
  • Dec 23, 1913: President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
  • Dec 24, 1913: In the Italian Hall Disaster, seventy-three men, women, and children are trampled to death when someone falsely yells quotfirequot at a crowded Christmas party.
  • Dec 30, 1913: Barnes takes 17 wickets versus South Africa (8-56 and 9-103).
  • Jan 5, 1913: First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; 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.

history

What does the year 1913 refer to in the Gregorian calendar?

The year 1913 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 14th year of the 20th century and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1912 and precedes 1914.

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