August 1913 calendar

Events

• 03 Aug 1913 A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
• 04 Aug 1913 In China, the province of Chungking declares independence Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
• 08 Aug 1913 Richard Corfields Camel Corps opens Mad Mullah in Burao Somalia
• 10 Aug 1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
• 13 Aug 1913 Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
• 16 Aug 1913 Tohoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) admits its first female students.
• 20 Aug 1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
• 22 Aug 1913 Robert Martineau, Bishop of Blackburn
• 23 Aug 1913 The statue of ''The Little Mermaid'' is unveiled in Copenhagen.
• 26 Aug 1913 33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
• 28 Aug 1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• 29 Aug 1913 Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
• 31 Aug 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands

Famous Birthday

• Menachem Begin

  Belarusian-Israeli politician 6th Prime Minister of Israel Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992).

• Serafin Lanot

  Filipino astrologer, author and publicist.

• Jacques Foccart

  French politician, the chief adviser for the government of France on African policy as well as the co-founder of the Gaullist Service...

• Ferruccio Tagliavini

  Italian opera singer who made his tenor debut in Florence in 1938, after leaving his work as an electrical engineer to enter the world of...

• Makarios III

  Greek archbishop and politician 1st President of Cyprus (d. 1977).

• Düsseldorf (Germany)
• André Méric
• Cornelius Cooper Johnson
• Willem Koppejan

  Dutch astrologer, the author of "Willem Koppejan's Astrological Archives - International and Nederland & Vlaanderen," published in 1996.

• Robertson Davies

  author, dies at age 82.

• W Mark Felt

  American Watergate figure (Born 1913).

• Bruno Pontecorvo

  Italian nuclear physicist who defected to Russia.

• Romain Maes

  Belgian cyclist (d. 1983).

• Harry Mills

  United States -- Singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70.

• Richard Tucker (tenor)
• Bernard Lovell

  English physicist and astronomer (d. 2012).

• Noah Beery Jr

  NYC, New York -- Actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot).

• Martin Kamen
• Albert P Clark
• Dorothy Comingore

  Actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58.

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Famous Deaths

• David Popper

  Composer, dies at 70.

• F August Bebel

  German social-democrat.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Joseph Cawthorn - You Can't Play Every Instrument in the Band
2. Christie MacDonald - Sweethearts
3. Elsie Baker & James F. Harrison - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
4. Enrico Caruso - Ave Maria
5. Henry Burr - Last Night Was the End of the World