March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on
4 December1952 (the
Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) will grow from this foundation).
May 9–
July 11 – A major industrial strike occurs in the
Black Country of England, involving 25,000 workers, and threatening preparations for World War I in naval and steel industries. The workers demand 23 shillings minimum wage.
May 30 –
First Balkan War: The
Treaty of London is signed, ending the war. Greece is granted those parts of southern
Epirus which it does not already control, and the independence of
Albania is recognised.
June 4 –
Emily Davison, a British
suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at
The Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.[14]
June 8 – The
Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It had been constructed in anticipation of the
1916 Summer Olympics (later to be cancelled as the result of World War I).
Battle of Bud Bagsak: Armed with guns and heavy artillery, U.S. and Philippine troops under General
John J. "Black Jack" Pershing fight a four-day battle against 500 Moro rebels, who are armed mostly with
kampilan swords. The rebels are killed in a final desperate charge on
June 15.
Death Valley,
California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the all-time
highest temperature recorded on Earth (although its validity has been challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, which would make it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation).[15]
August 4 –
Republic of China: The city of
Chungking (modern spelling Chongqing) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
August 20 – After his airplane fails at an altitude of 900 feet (270 m), aviator
Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to bail out from an airplane and land safely.[19]
August 31 – Dublin Lock-out: "Bloody Sunday": The dispute escalates when the
Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400, in dispersing a demonstration.[3][20]
In Germany,
BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of
fertilizer based on the
Haber-Bosch process, feeding in modern times about a third of the world's population.
October 9 – Canadian-owned ocean liner
SS Volturno (1906), carrying passengers (mostly immigrants) and a chemical cargo from
Rotterdam to New York City, catches fire in a North Atlantic gale; 136 die, but 521 are saved by ships summoned by
SOS messages to the scene.
The
Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving
assembly line, reducing
chassis assembly time from 12+1⁄2 hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. Although
Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of
mass production.
^Επίτομη Ιστορία των Βαλκανικών Πολέμων 1912-1913 [Concise History of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913]. Athens: Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate. 1987. pp. 125–130.
^Erickson, Edward J. (2003). Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913. Westport, CT: Greenwood. pp. 157–158.
ISBN0-275-97888-5.
^Kershaw, Ian (2010). Hitler: A Biography. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 45.
^Radio Lab, Show 202: "Musical Language"Archived September 1, 2010, at the
Wayback Machine, New York: WNYC (21 April 2006). Host/Producer: Jad Abumrad, Co-Host: Robert Krulwich, Producer: Ellen Horne, Production Executives: Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor.
^Illies, Florian (2013). 1913: The Year Before the Storm. Melville House.
ISBN978-1-61219-352-6.
^Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. pp. 51–53.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
^Duncan Petrie, "Slocombe, (Ralph) Douglas Vladimir (1913–2016)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2020
available onlineArchived April 20, 2021, at the
Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
^Gribbin, John (2000). Q is for quantum : an encyclopedia of particle physics. New York: Touchstone. p. 203.
ISBN9780684863153.
^Gabroussenko, Tatiana (2010). Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 56, 58, 85.
ISBN978-0-8248-3396-1.
March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on
4 December1952 (the
Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) will grow from this foundation).
May 9–
July 11 – A major industrial strike occurs in the
Black Country of England, involving 25,000 workers, and threatening preparations for World War I in naval and steel industries. The workers demand 23 shillings minimum wage.
May 30 –
First Balkan War: The
Treaty of London is signed, ending the war. Greece is granted those parts of southern
Epirus which it does not already control, and the independence of
Albania is recognised.
June 4 –
Emily Davison, a British
suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at
The Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.[14]
June 8 – The
Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It had been constructed in anticipation of the
1916 Summer Olympics (later to be cancelled as the result of World War I).
Battle of Bud Bagsak: Armed with guns and heavy artillery, U.S. and Philippine troops under General
John J. "Black Jack" Pershing fight a four-day battle against 500 Moro rebels, who are armed mostly with
kampilan swords. The rebels are killed in a final desperate charge on
June 15.
Death Valley,
California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the all-time
highest temperature recorded on Earth (although its validity has been challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, which would make it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation).[15]
August 4 –
Republic of China: The city of
Chungking (modern spelling Chongqing) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
August 20 – After his airplane fails at an altitude of 900 feet (270 m), aviator
Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to bail out from an airplane and land safely.[19]
August 31 – Dublin Lock-out: "Bloody Sunday": The dispute escalates when the
Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400, in dispersing a demonstration.[3][20]
In Germany,
BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of
fertilizer based on the
Haber-Bosch process, feeding in modern times about a third of the world's population.
October 9 – Canadian-owned ocean liner
SS Volturno (1906), carrying passengers (mostly immigrants) and a chemical cargo from
Rotterdam to New York City, catches fire in a North Atlantic gale; 136 die, but 521 are saved by ships summoned by
SOS messages to the scene.
The
Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving
assembly line, reducing
chassis assembly time from 12+1⁄2 hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. Although
Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of
mass production.
^Επίτομη Ιστορία των Βαλκανικών Πολέμων 1912-1913 [Concise History of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913]. Athens: Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate. 1987. pp. 125–130.
^Erickson, Edward J. (2003). Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913. Westport, CT: Greenwood. pp. 157–158.
ISBN0-275-97888-5.
^Kershaw, Ian (2010). Hitler: A Biography. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 45.
^Radio Lab, Show 202: "Musical Language"Archived September 1, 2010, at the
Wayback Machine, New York: WNYC (21 April 2006). Host/Producer: Jad Abumrad, Co-Host: Robert Krulwich, Producer: Ellen Horne, Production Executives: Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor.
^Illies, Florian (2013). 1913: The Year Before the Storm. Melville House.
ISBN978-1-61219-352-6.
^Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. pp. 51–53.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
^Duncan Petrie, "Slocombe, (Ralph) Douglas Vladimir (1913–2016)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2020
available onlineArchived April 20, 2021, at the
Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
^Gribbin, John (2000). Q is for quantum : an encyclopedia of particle physics. New York: Touchstone. p. 203.
ISBN9780684863153.
^Gabroussenko, Tatiana (2010). Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 56, 58, 85.
ISBN978-0-8248-3396-1.