WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1913
Find out what all happened April to October 1913

Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. (24. June 1913)

Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. (10. July 1913)

Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States. (31. October 1913)

Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania. (13. August 1913)

Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. (28. August 1913)

First Balkan War: the Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. (30. May 1913)

Police attack a union rally during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two people and injuring hundreds. (31. August 1913)

First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. (13. August 1913)

Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented. (19. June 1913)

American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. (25. June 1913)

Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot. (29. May 1913)

A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California. (3. August 1913)

Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. (10. August 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. (3. July 1913)

Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia). (23. September 1913)

President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. (4. July 1913)

The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes. (11. April 1913)

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners. (14. October 1913)

Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary. (16. August 1913)

New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. (14. May 1913)

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