October 1913 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1913 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
• 03 Oct 1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%).
• 04 Oct 1913 Brooklyn Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
• 07 Oct 1913 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
• 09 Oct 1913 Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 10 Oct 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
• 11 Oct 1913 Philadelphia Athletics beat New York Giants, four games to one in 10th World Series.
• 13 Oct 1913 Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
• 14 Oct 1913 Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
• 15 Oct 1913 Train crash in Liverpool during Black Week
• 16 Oct 1913 Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St, New York City
• 18 Oct 1913 Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave
• 19 Oct 1913 The DLRG (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.
• 22 Oct 1913 Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
• 24 Oct 1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
• 26 Oct 1913 Huerta elected President of Mexico
• 27 Oct 1913 President Wilson says US will never attack another country
• 31 Oct 1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.

Famous Birthday

• Klaus Barbie

  German Nazi war criminal, known as the Butcher of Lyon.

• Rémy Chauvin

  French scientist and parapsychologist, an authority on animal behavior and insect physiology.

• Vinícius de Moraes
• Robert Capa

  Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954).

• André Fougeron

  French painter, engaged as a communist since 1939.

• Claude Simon

  French novelist often identified with the nouveau roman movement.

• French Fourth Republic
• Laura Adani

  Italian actress who appeared in 13 films between 1933 and 1980.

• Jean Rousselot

  French writer, journalist, poet, novelist, essayist.

• Armand Lanoux

  France Writer.

• Tito Gobbi

  Italian singer, an operatic baritone who made his debut in 1938.

• Simon Carmiggelt

  Dutch writer, journalist, and humorous essayist, who also wrote lyrics and children's books, including "Little Men.

• Robert Chaney

  American Spiritualist Reverend, a billet reader and medium, the founder of "Astara" with his wife Earlyne when they relocated from Indiana...

• Emylu Landers Hughes
• Vasco Pratolini

  Italian writer, a novelist and short story writer who won a number of prizes.

• Marian Marsh
• Carmen Mastren
• Bao Dai
• Charlie Barnet

  American saxophonist composer and bandleader (d. 1991).

• Robert Rowe Gilruth
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Famous Deaths

• Leander Schlegel

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Katsura Taro

  Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1848).

• William Evans-Gordon

  British politician (Born 1857).

• Adolphus Busch

  German-American entrepreneur and executive at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis, MO.

• Eugene O'Keefe

  Canadian businessman and philanthropist (Born 1827).

• Hans von Bartels

  German painter and academic (d. 1913).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Grace Kerns - Sweethearts
2. Al Jolson - Pullman Porters' Parade
3. Charles Harrison - Last Night was the End of the World
4. Harry Macdonough & American Quartet - On the Banks of the Wabash
5. Heidelberg Quintet - You're a Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby