WHAT HAPPENED IN 1913.
Look what happened the 1913.

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

Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends. (12. July 1913)

The Norwegian football club Vålerenga Fotball was founded. (29. July 1913)

The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest. (31. July 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. (5. November 1913)

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. (6. November 1913)

   
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