February 1913 calendar

Events

• 02 Feb 1913 New York football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
• 03 Feb 1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified.
• 04 Feb 1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded.
• 05 Feb 1913 Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 09 Feb 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.
• 10 Feb 1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York City, New York.
• 13 Feb 1913 Mexican Revolution: Begins the episode known as ''La Decena Trágica'', the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Madero.
• 16 Feb 1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico.
• 17 Feb 1913 New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public.
• 18 Feb 1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel DuChamp displayed at Armory Show in New York City, New York.
• 19 Feb 1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support.
• 20 Feb 1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
• 21 Feb 1913 Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
• 22 Feb 1913 Mexican Revolution: Assassination of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez. Is succeeded by General Victoriano Huerta.
• 25 Feb 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax.
• 28 Feb 1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic).

Famous Birthday

• Rosa Parks

  American activist known as "the mother of the civil rights movement" due to her sparking of the Montgomery bus boycott, leading to a...

• Jimmy Hoffa

  American labor union leader who became President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1957.

• Paul Ricoeur

  French philosopher, the author of more than a dozen books and several hundred articles that influenced philosophical thought in both French...

• Johann Petursson
• Gert Fröbe

  German actor, best-known for his role as the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond classic "Goldfinger".

• Woody Hayes

  American football coach at Ohio State University.

• Auguste Le Breton
• Jim Backus

  American actor in vaudeville and radio who was onscreen from 1942 in films such as "Bright Victory," "Pat and Mike" and "Crazy Mama.

• James Pike

  American minister, an ordained clergyman of the Episcopal Church in 1944, the Chaplain and Dean of the Department of Religion at Columbia...

• Erwin Félix Lewy-Bertaut
• Artur Axmann

  German head of the Reich Youth from 1933 as Chief of the Social Office.

• Giuseppe Dossetti

  Italian university professor, a member of the resistance and founder of a center for religious study in Bologna.

• Georges Guingouin

  Magnac-Laval Politician.

• Norman J Anderson
• Tommy Henrich

  American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009).

• Irwin Shaw

  American writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at age 71 (born 1913).

• Buddy Tate

  American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2001).

• Al Licklider

  American theater director and promoter.

• Marcel Bascoulard
• Philippa Bevans actress (Notorious Landlady

  World of Henry Orient).

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Famous Deaths

• Francisco Indalecio Madero

  Mex pres, assassinated in military coup at 39.

• Suarez

  Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup.

• Elephant seal

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• Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure Swiss linguist

  dies at age 55.

• Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus)

  dies at age 58.

• Felix Draeseke

  German composer and educator (d. 1913).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ada Jones - I've Got the Finest Man
2. Billy Murray - Bagdad
3. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'
4. Alice Nielsen - In the Gloaming
5. American Quartet - On the Mississippi