WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1913
Find out what all happened August to October 1913

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

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

President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. (10. October 1913)

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

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

Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic. (9. October 1913)

Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students. (16. August 1913)

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

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

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

The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins. (31. October 1913)

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

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

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