1913 Calendar
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1913 Historical Event(s)
January 17, 1913
– Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
February 6, 1913
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
February 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.
April 8, 1913
– The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
May 30, 1913
– First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
July 3, 1913
– Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett’s Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
October 9, 1913
– Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
October 10, 1913
– President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
December 1, 1913
– The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
December 23, 1913
– The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
Who Were Born On 1913?
February 27, 1913
– Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
March 13, 1913
– Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
April 25, 1913
– Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944)
May 26, 1913
– Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
June 26, 1913
– Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
June 30, 1913
– Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian politician (d. 2007)
September 27, 1913
– Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
September 28, 1913
– Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
November 13, 1913
– Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (d. 2003)
November 24, 1913
– Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)