At a 50th anniversary reunion to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, more than fifty thousand (53,407)[1] surviving veterans of the Union and Confederate armies assembled at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to set up tents.[2] Eight of the aged veterans had died by the time President Wilson's speech to the gathering.[3] The reunion ended on July 6.[4][5]
American jewelers began the use of the
metric carat as the standard for weighing of gemstones and pearls, with a carat being equal to 200 milligrams. The unit was slightly less than the English carat of 205.3035 milligrams.[12]
Wall Street lobbyist
David Lamar testified before a
United States Senate subcommittee that he had frequently impersonated Congressmen during telephone conversations in order to gain an advantage.[19] The
United States Department of Justice reluctantly concluded that there was no federal law under which Lamar could be prosecuted.[20] Although federal law made it a felony "to impersonate an officer of the United States", the
Supreme Court of the United States had ruled that members of Congress were "not officers of the United States, but of the particular States from which they come.[21]
Upon recommendation of the city Board of Health, the city of
Cincinnati seized control of eight ice plants whose workers had gone on strike during the hot summer.[22] The strike settled four days later.[23]
American race car driver
Harry Knight was killed along with his mechanic Milton McAllis when their car blew a tire during a race in
Columbus, Ohio and rolled over twice.[33]
Three days of rioting by miners in the
Rand District of
South Africa halted after the government agreed to bring legislation for improvement of working conditions. The night before,
Johannesburg police had fired their guns into a crowd of protesters who ignored orders to disperse, killing 40.[35]
Died:J. C. Williamson, 67, American-Australian actor and theatrical producer, founder of J. C. Williamson Ltd. (b.
1845)
July 7, 1913 (Monday)
The
Irish Home Rule bill passed on its third reading in the British House of Commons, 352-243.[39] The measure was sent to the House of Lords, which rejected it on July 15.
Mexican-American folk hero and outlaw
Gregorio Cortez was freed from the Texas State Penitentiary in
Huntsville, Texas, where he had served eight and one half years, following a pardon issued by Governor
Oscar Branch Colquitt.[40]
Trainmen and conductors of most of the railroads in the eastern
United States voted 72,473 to 4,210 in favor of going on strike for higher wages, tying up the nation's commerce and travel.[42]
The
Welsh Disestablishment Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons and was sent to the House of Lords for consideration.[43]
British yacht
Vivid ran aground and wrecked at the island of
Colonsay off the coast of
Scotland while en route from
Glasgow to
Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[44]
Pearl Curran, a
St. Louis housewife who was experimenting with an
Ouija board, began reporting the communications of "
Patience Worth", whom Curran said had been an Englishwoman who had lived in
Dorset more than 200 years earlier, during the 17th century, and had been killed by Indians after crossing the ocean to America. For the next 24 years, until her death in 1937, Mrs. Curran would publish novels and poems attributed to her communications with
Patience Worth.[45]
Died:Louis Hémon, 32, French novelist who moved to Canada, was killed after being struck by a train in
Chapleau, Ontario. His novel Maria Chapdelaine was published after his death, and brought him posthumous fame. (b.
1880)
July 9, 1913 (Wednesday)
China's National Assembly ratified a treaty with
Russia, relinquishing its claims on
Mongolia.[46]
This afternoon, the
United States Weather Bureau recorded the highest ever ambient air temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at
Greenland Ranch (modern-day
Furnace Creek) in
Death Valley.[47] The record's validity was later challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, making it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation.[48]
The
Jiangxi province declared its independence from
China, and the provincial assembly authorized Li Lieh-chun to lead a fight against the national government.[50]
French aviator
Léon Letort set a new record for nonstop flight, exceeding 500 miles and finishing at 590 miles upon landing in
Berlin after setting off from
Paris nine hours earlier[60]
Two weeks after the start of the
Second Balkan War between Romania and Bulgaria, the first of
more than 11,500 within the Romanian Army was diagnosed. The epidemic would kill more than 1,600 soldiers and officers, while relatively few Romanians would die in combat.[61]
A nationwide strike of railroad employees was averted by negotiations at the
White House, which included U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson, Congressional leaders and the
Secretary of Labor, as well as representatives of the railroads and the workers' unions. Management and labor settled their differences in light of an understanding that
United States Congress would approve an amendment of the
Erdman Arbitration Act. Passage of the bill and its signing into law were accomplished the next day.[62]
As expected,
Great Britain's
House of Lords voted against approval of the
Irish Home Rule bill, for the second time, by a majority of 238. Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith announced that his government would present a plan for abolition of the
House of Lords at the next session of
Parliament.[66] The bill would finally become law on September 18, 1914, after passing under the terms of the Parliament Act on May 25 of that year.[67]
China's President
Yuan Shikai asked Prime Minister
Zhao Bingjun to resign, then appointed him to the Beijing police to guide a campaign against Yuan's opponents.[70]
The
Mental Deficiency Act was passed by the
British House of Commons, 180 to 3, providing for the removal of "feeble-minded" persons to special institutions. The only three MPs to vote against it were Josiah Wedgwood, Frederick Banbury and Handel Booth. The act would receive royal assent and take effect on April 1, 1914.[77]
At
Guangzhou (Canton), the Governor-General of the
Kwangtung province proclaimed that land's independence from
China.[78]
China's President
Yuan Shikai declared martial law nationwide as the southern provinces continued their rebellion.[88] On the same day, former President
Sun Yat-sen released a statement to the media, calling for Yuan's resignation.[89]
Fifty people, mostly women and girls, were killed in a fire at the Binghamton Clothing Company factory in
Binghamton, New York. Although an alarm system had been installed two months earlier by state law, it was believed that there had been so many fire drills that "recent familiarity with fire drills had led the workers to become almost indifferent to alarms", the girls were slow in evacuating the second and third floors, and were trapped by the swiftly moving fire. Firefighters were also led four blocks off course by a bystander who stood at the corner and rang an alarm.[91]
Copper miners in Michigan walked off of their jobs in a strike called by the
Western Federation of Miners, with the goal of winning an eight-hour workday without a cut in pay. The strike would last for more than eight months, until April 12, 1914, without the miners receiving the shorter day. During that time, 73 people, consisting of striking miners and their families would die in the
Italian Hall disaster on December 24, 1913.[94]
William F. Cody, better known by his stage name
Buffalo Bill, auctioned off the assets of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show that he had operated since May 19, 1883. The public auction followed Cody's loss of nearly one million dollars in attempts to mine gold in
Arizona.[96]
The
Washington Senators and the
St. Louis Browns (now the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles, respectively) played to an 8-8 tie after their game went 15 innings until ended because of darkness.
Walter Johnson set a record for a relief pitcher, throwing 15 strikeouts.
Carl Weilman of the Browns became the first player to strike out six times in one game, in every single one of his times at bat. Walter Johnson's record would be broken 88 years later, by Randy Johnson on July 19, 2001.
Romania halted its armies to within ten miles of the Bulgarian capital of
Sofia, at the request of Bulgaria's Foreign Minister and an assurance of a favorable settlement.[101]
British soldiers, who had been sent to monitor the
Ulster Volunteers, fired into a crowd of Irish protesters in
Dublin, killing three and wounding 38.[102]
In an action that made headlines around the world,
Dr. Rosalie M. Ladova, a prominent
Chicago physician, made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the American social
mores of the time, when she discarded the "bathing skirt" that female swimmers were required to wear in addition to the
bloomers that covered their legs. Police arrested Dr. Ladova at the beach at
Jackson Park on
Lake Michigan and charged her with obscenity.[104] After seeing the newspaper photographs the next day of Dr. Cordova's blouse and bloomers swimwear, Chicago Mayor
Carter Harrison Jr. declared that "No woman should think of wearing that kind of costume" at a beach, and directed the city police to "gently but firmly insist upon the lady putting on proper costumes".[105] The "skin-tight" bathing suit had long been accepted in Britain for both men and women.[106] After Dr. Ladova's daring experiment, almost eight years would pass before the taboo was discarded in the
United States, with Mayor Robert Crissye of the city of
Somers Point, New Jersey, inviting women "to bathe on his city's beaches barelegged and in a one-piece suit", in the style of Australian swimmer
Annette Kellermann.[107]
The trial of Jewish factory manager
Leo Frank, on charges of the murder of Mary Phagan, began in
Atlanta. Because of the heat, the windows in the
Fulton County courthouse were kept open, giving the opportunity for the mob outside to influence the trial's outcome, although the
Supreme Court of the United States would later rule, in 1915, that Frank's due process rights had not been prejudiced by the circumstances.[112]
At a conference of the ambassadors to
London of the six "Great Powers" (
Austria-Hungary,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
Russia, and the
United Kingdom), it was agreed that an international commission would govern
Albania until a monarch could be chosen, and boundaries were set for the new nation. The seven-member
International Control Commission, composed of one representative each from each of the Great Powers, and Albania, was to govern the country for ten years. In March,
Prince Wilhelm zu Wied would be selected as
King of Albania under the ICC's authority, but the Commission dissolved after its members went to war against each other.[113]
The
Anglo-Ottoman Convention was signed between the British and Ottoman Empires, as the "Convention relating to the Persian Gulf and surrounding territories". However, the convention was never ratified and became a moot point in 1914 when
World War I began.[114]
Seven spectators at a motorcycle race in
Cincinnati were killed and 18 seriously injured, when racer Odin Johnson lost control of his cycle while competing at the Lagoon Motordrome and crashed into a light pole, showering 35 people with flaming gasoline.[119]
Great Britain announced that it would not participate in the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915, and was followed within the next two days by
Germany and
Russia, with news editorials saying "it is regarded as Great Britain's way of intimating that she still resents the course of the United States in regard to the [Panama] canal tolls."[120]
In the largest demonstration for
women's suffrage in the United States up to that time, a motorcade of sixty automobiles traveled from
Hyattsville, Maryland to the
United States Capitol to present the
United States Senate with petitions bearing 200,000 signatures of persons favoring an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow women to vote.[122] On May 9, 1915, petitions with 500,000 signatures would be presented, and on October 27, 1917, one million.[123]
The Second Opium Conference was convened, at
The Hague, in order to take up the matter of the remaining 12 of 46 nations that had not signed. The Conference would end after eight days.[124]
^"Customs Plan Put Into Force". The Boston Daily Globe. March 5, 1913.
^Bennett, Alan (1994). Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Cheltenham: Runpast.
ISBN1-870754-31-X.[page needed]
^Oppitz, Leslie (2003). Lost Railways of Kent. Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books. p. 98.
ISBN978-1-85306-803-4.
^"Everyday Uses of the Metric System", by Fred Telford, in Popular Mechanics (December 1913) p. 845
^Riley, Michael O. (1997). Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. p. 171.
ISBN0-7006-0832-X.
^Romain Kohn (2003).
"Luxembourg". In Ana Karlsreiter (ed.). Media in Multilingual Societies. Freedom and Responsibility. Vienna: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
^"Lamar Lays Bare His U.P. Tricks— Boastingly Reveals to Lobby Committee His Campaign of Telephone Intrigue", New York Times, July 3, 1913;
"Lamar's Story in Detail", New York Times, July 3, 1913
^"Cannot Reach Lamar", New York Times, July 9, 1913
^"Can Lamar Be Punished?", New York Times, July 4, 1913
^"City Seizes Ice Plants", New York Times, July 3, 1913
^"Cincinnati Ice Strike Settled", New York Times, July 7, 1913
^"Old Whaler Starts for Crocker Land", New York Times, July 3, 1913
^Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2002) p. 110
^Pamela Brooks, Heroes, Villains and Victims of Norwich (DB Publishing, 2008) p. 22
^"Majority of 109 for Home Rule", New York Times, July 8, 1913
^Jan Harold Brunvand, ed., American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Taylor & Francis, 1996) p. 340
^Ross McMullin (1991). The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party 1891–1991. Oxford University Press. p. 89.
^"Railroads Will Not Yield to Trainmen", New York Times, July 9, 1913
^Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig, The Origins of World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2003) p. 395
^John K. Fairbank and Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12, Republican China, 1912–1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1983) p. 233
^J. A. S. Grenville, The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2001) p. 50
^Staff, Gary (2006). German Battlecruisers: 1914–1918. Oxford: Osprey Books. p. 79.
ISBN978-1-84603-009-3.
^Jürgen Neffe, Einstein: A Biography (Macmillan, 2007) pp. 163-164
^Rodrigues, Rodolfo M. (2006). Escudos dos Times do Mundo Inteiro. Panda Books. p. 77.
ISBN978-8-57695-011-0.
^"To Abolish the Lords", New York Times, July 17, 1913
^Ian Lustick, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell University Press, 1993) p. 498
^"Dr. Robert Bridges New Poet Laureate", New York Times, July 18, 1913
^"Names Mediation Board", New York Times, July 18, 1913
^"History". About Frensham. Frensham School. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
^"Record of Current Events", The American Monthly Review of Reviews (August 1913), pp. 297-298
^"Rumanians Near Sofia— King Ferdiand Pleads with King Charles for Terms of Peace", New York Times, July 18, 1913; Robert W. Seton-Watson, A History of the Roumanians (Cambridge University Press, 1934) p. 459
^"French Army Bill Passed", New York Times, July 20, 1913
^Patrick McDonagh, Idiocy: A Cultural History (Liverpool University Press, 2008) pp. 326-327
^"Canton Governor Rebels", New York Times, July 20, 1913
^Edward S. Kaplan, U.S. Imperialism in Latin America: Bryan's Challenges and Contributions, 1900–1920 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998) p. 42
^Joyce A. Madancy, The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003) p. 224
^"Record of Current Events" August 1913, pp. 297-298
^Bobby Bridger, Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West (University of Texas Press, 2002) pp. 9-10
^"Thrown out by Lords- Another Government Bill, That to Abolish Plural Voting, Defeated", New York Times, July 25, 1913
^Christopher H. Sterling, et al., Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, And Economics (Taylor & Francis, 2006) pp. 80-81
^"Austria Demands End of Bloodshed- Warns Servians and Greeks That Mercy Must Be Shown Bulgaria", New York Times, July 26, 1913
^Lyon Sharman, Sun Yat-Sen, His Life & Its Meaning: A Critical Biography (Stanford University Press, 1968) p. 186
^"Record of Current Events" August 1913, pp. 297-298
^Seán McConville, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922: Theatres of War (Routledge, 2003) p. 415
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^"Cycle Crash Killed Eight", New York Times, August 1, 1913
^"England to Ignore the Panama Fair", New York Times, July 31, 1913
^Ruhlmann, William (2 August 2004). Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits. Routledge. p. 28.
ISBN978-1-135-94719-4.
^"Suffrage Autoists Besiege Senators", New York Times, August 1, 1913
^Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, & Women's Political Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) p. 183
^David F. Musto, The American Disease : Origins of Narcotic Control (Oxford University Press, 1999) pp. 52-53
At a 50th anniversary reunion to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, more than fifty thousand (53,407)[1] surviving veterans of the Union and Confederate armies assembled at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to set up tents.[2] Eight of the aged veterans had died by the time President Wilson's speech to the gathering.[3] The reunion ended on July 6.[4][5]
American jewelers began the use of the
metric carat as the standard for weighing of gemstones and pearls, with a carat being equal to 200 milligrams. The unit was slightly less than the English carat of 205.3035 milligrams.[12]
Wall Street lobbyist
David Lamar testified before a
United States Senate subcommittee that he had frequently impersonated Congressmen during telephone conversations in order to gain an advantage.[19] The
United States Department of Justice reluctantly concluded that there was no federal law under which Lamar could be prosecuted.[20] Although federal law made it a felony "to impersonate an officer of the United States", the
Supreme Court of the United States had ruled that members of Congress were "not officers of the United States, but of the particular States from which they come.[21]
Upon recommendation of the city Board of Health, the city of
Cincinnati seized control of eight ice plants whose workers had gone on strike during the hot summer.[22] The strike settled four days later.[23]
American race car driver
Harry Knight was killed along with his mechanic Milton McAllis when their car blew a tire during a race in
Columbus, Ohio and rolled over twice.[33]
Three days of rioting by miners in the
Rand District of
South Africa halted after the government agreed to bring legislation for improvement of working conditions. The night before,
Johannesburg police had fired their guns into a crowd of protesters who ignored orders to disperse, killing 40.[35]
Died:J. C. Williamson, 67, American-Australian actor and theatrical producer, founder of J. C. Williamson Ltd. (b.
1845)
July 7, 1913 (Monday)
The
Irish Home Rule bill passed on its third reading in the British House of Commons, 352-243.[39] The measure was sent to the House of Lords, which rejected it on July 15.
Mexican-American folk hero and outlaw
Gregorio Cortez was freed from the Texas State Penitentiary in
Huntsville, Texas, where he had served eight and one half years, following a pardon issued by Governor
Oscar Branch Colquitt.[40]
Trainmen and conductors of most of the railroads in the eastern
United States voted 72,473 to 4,210 in favor of going on strike for higher wages, tying up the nation's commerce and travel.[42]
The
Welsh Disestablishment Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons and was sent to the House of Lords for consideration.[43]
British yacht
Vivid ran aground and wrecked at the island of
Colonsay off the coast of
Scotland while en route from
Glasgow to
Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[44]
Pearl Curran, a
St. Louis housewife who was experimenting with an
Ouija board, began reporting the communications of "
Patience Worth", whom Curran said had been an Englishwoman who had lived in
Dorset more than 200 years earlier, during the 17th century, and had been killed by Indians after crossing the ocean to America. For the next 24 years, until her death in 1937, Mrs. Curran would publish novels and poems attributed to her communications with
Patience Worth.[45]
Died:Louis Hémon, 32, French novelist who moved to Canada, was killed after being struck by a train in
Chapleau, Ontario. His novel Maria Chapdelaine was published after his death, and brought him posthumous fame. (b.
1880)
July 9, 1913 (Wednesday)
China's National Assembly ratified a treaty with
Russia, relinquishing its claims on
Mongolia.[46]
This afternoon, the
United States Weather Bureau recorded the highest ever ambient air temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at
Greenland Ranch (modern-day
Furnace Creek) in
Death Valley.[47] The record's validity was later challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, making it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation.[48]
The
Jiangxi province declared its independence from
China, and the provincial assembly authorized Li Lieh-chun to lead a fight against the national government.[50]
French aviator
Léon Letort set a new record for nonstop flight, exceeding 500 miles and finishing at 590 miles upon landing in
Berlin after setting off from
Paris nine hours earlier[60]
Two weeks after the start of the
Second Balkan War between Romania and Bulgaria, the first of
more than 11,500 within the Romanian Army was diagnosed. The epidemic would kill more than 1,600 soldiers and officers, while relatively few Romanians would die in combat.[61]
A nationwide strike of railroad employees was averted by negotiations at the
White House, which included U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson, Congressional leaders and the
Secretary of Labor, as well as representatives of the railroads and the workers' unions. Management and labor settled their differences in light of an understanding that
United States Congress would approve an amendment of the
Erdman Arbitration Act. Passage of the bill and its signing into law were accomplished the next day.[62]
As expected,
Great Britain's
House of Lords voted against approval of the
Irish Home Rule bill, for the second time, by a majority of 238. Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith announced that his government would present a plan for abolition of the
House of Lords at the next session of
Parliament.[66] The bill would finally become law on September 18, 1914, after passing under the terms of the Parliament Act on May 25 of that year.[67]
China's President
Yuan Shikai asked Prime Minister
Zhao Bingjun to resign, then appointed him to the Beijing police to guide a campaign against Yuan's opponents.[70]
The
Mental Deficiency Act was passed by the
British House of Commons, 180 to 3, providing for the removal of "feeble-minded" persons to special institutions. The only three MPs to vote against it were Josiah Wedgwood, Frederick Banbury and Handel Booth. The act would receive royal assent and take effect on April 1, 1914.[77]
At
Guangzhou (Canton), the Governor-General of the
Kwangtung province proclaimed that land's independence from
China.[78]
China's President
Yuan Shikai declared martial law nationwide as the southern provinces continued their rebellion.[88] On the same day, former President
Sun Yat-sen released a statement to the media, calling for Yuan's resignation.[89]
Fifty people, mostly women and girls, were killed in a fire at the Binghamton Clothing Company factory in
Binghamton, New York. Although an alarm system had been installed two months earlier by state law, it was believed that there had been so many fire drills that "recent familiarity with fire drills had led the workers to become almost indifferent to alarms", the girls were slow in evacuating the second and third floors, and were trapped by the swiftly moving fire. Firefighters were also led four blocks off course by a bystander who stood at the corner and rang an alarm.[91]
Copper miners in Michigan walked off of their jobs in a strike called by the
Western Federation of Miners, with the goal of winning an eight-hour workday without a cut in pay. The strike would last for more than eight months, until April 12, 1914, without the miners receiving the shorter day. During that time, 73 people, consisting of striking miners and their families would die in the
Italian Hall disaster on December 24, 1913.[94]
William F. Cody, better known by his stage name
Buffalo Bill, auctioned off the assets of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show that he had operated since May 19, 1883. The public auction followed Cody's loss of nearly one million dollars in attempts to mine gold in
Arizona.[96]
The
Washington Senators and the
St. Louis Browns (now the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles, respectively) played to an 8-8 tie after their game went 15 innings until ended because of darkness.
Walter Johnson set a record for a relief pitcher, throwing 15 strikeouts.
Carl Weilman of the Browns became the first player to strike out six times in one game, in every single one of his times at bat. Walter Johnson's record would be broken 88 years later, by Randy Johnson on July 19, 2001.
Romania halted its armies to within ten miles of the Bulgarian capital of
Sofia, at the request of Bulgaria's Foreign Minister and an assurance of a favorable settlement.[101]
British soldiers, who had been sent to monitor the
Ulster Volunteers, fired into a crowd of Irish protesters in
Dublin, killing three and wounding 38.[102]
In an action that made headlines around the world,
Dr. Rosalie M. Ladova, a prominent
Chicago physician, made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the American social
mores of the time, when she discarded the "bathing skirt" that female swimmers were required to wear in addition to the
bloomers that covered their legs. Police arrested Dr. Ladova at the beach at
Jackson Park on
Lake Michigan and charged her with obscenity.[104] After seeing the newspaper photographs the next day of Dr. Cordova's blouse and bloomers swimwear, Chicago Mayor
Carter Harrison Jr. declared that "No woman should think of wearing that kind of costume" at a beach, and directed the city police to "gently but firmly insist upon the lady putting on proper costumes".[105] The "skin-tight" bathing suit had long been accepted in Britain for both men and women.[106] After Dr. Ladova's daring experiment, almost eight years would pass before the taboo was discarded in the
United States, with Mayor Robert Crissye of the city of
Somers Point, New Jersey, inviting women "to bathe on his city's beaches barelegged and in a one-piece suit", in the style of Australian swimmer
Annette Kellermann.[107]
The trial of Jewish factory manager
Leo Frank, on charges of the murder of Mary Phagan, began in
Atlanta. Because of the heat, the windows in the
Fulton County courthouse were kept open, giving the opportunity for the mob outside to influence the trial's outcome, although the
Supreme Court of the United States would later rule, in 1915, that Frank's due process rights had not been prejudiced by the circumstances.[112]
At a conference of the ambassadors to
London of the six "Great Powers" (
Austria-Hungary,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
Russia, and the
United Kingdom), it was agreed that an international commission would govern
Albania until a monarch could be chosen, and boundaries were set for the new nation. The seven-member
International Control Commission, composed of one representative each from each of the Great Powers, and Albania, was to govern the country for ten years. In March,
Prince Wilhelm zu Wied would be selected as
King of Albania under the ICC's authority, but the Commission dissolved after its members went to war against each other.[113]
The
Anglo-Ottoman Convention was signed between the British and Ottoman Empires, as the "Convention relating to the Persian Gulf and surrounding territories". However, the convention was never ratified and became a moot point in 1914 when
World War I began.[114]
Seven spectators at a motorcycle race in
Cincinnati were killed and 18 seriously injured, when racer Odin Johnson lost control of his cycle while competing at the Lagoon Motordrome and crashed into a light pole, showering 35 people with flaming gasoline.[119]
Great Britain announced that it would not participate in the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915, and was followed within the next two days by
Germany and
Russia, with news editorials saying "it is regarded as Great Britain's way of intimating that she still resents the course of the United States in regard to the [Panama] canal tolls."[120]
In the largest demonstration for
women's suffrage in the United States up to that time, a motorcade of sixty automobiles traveled from
Hyattsville, Maryland to the
United States Capitol to present the
United States Senate with petitions bearing 200,000 signatures of persons favoring an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow women to vote.[122] On May 9, 1915, petitions with 500,000 signatures would be presented, and on October 27, 1917, one million.[123]
The Second Opium Conference was convened, at
The Hague, in order to take up the matter of the remaining 12 of 46 nations that had not signed. The Conference would end after eight days.[124]
^"Customs Plan Put Into Force". The Boston Daily Globe. March 5, 1913.
^Bennett, Alan (1994). Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Cheltenham: Runpast.
ISBN1-870754-31-X.[page needed]
^Oppitz, Leslie (2003). Lost Railways of Kent. Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books. p. 98.
ISBN978-1-85306-803-4.
^"Everyday Uses of the Metric System", by Fred Telford, in Popular Mechanics (December 1913) p. 845
^Riley, Michael O. (1997). Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. p. 171.
ISBN0-7006-0832-X.
^Romain Kohn (2003).
"Luxembourg". In Ana Karlsreiter (ed.). Media in Multilingual Societies. Freedom and Responsibility. Vienna: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
^"Lamar Lays Bare His U.P. Tricks— Boastingly Reveals to Lobby Committee His Campaign of Telephone Intrigue", New York Times, July 3, 1913;
"Lamar's Story in Detail", New York Times, July 3, 1913
^"Cannot Reach Lamar", New York Times, July 9, 1913
^"Can Lamar Be Punished?", New York Times, July 4, 1913
^"City Seizes Ice Plants", New York Times, July 3, 1913
^"Cincinnati Ice Strike Settled", New York Times, July 7, 1913
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^"Names Mediation Board", New York Times, July 18, 1913
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^"Thrown out by Lords- Another Government Bill, That to Abolish Plural Voting, Defeated", New York Times, July 25, 1913
^Christopher H. Sterling, et al., Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, And Economics (Taylor & Francis, 2006) pp. 80-81
^"Austria Demands End of Bloodshed- Warns Servians and Greeks That Mercy Must Be Shown Bulgaria", New York Times, July 26, 1913
^Lyon Sharman, Sun Yat-Sen, His Life & Its Meaning: A Critical Biography (Stanford University Press, 1968) p. 186
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^"England to Ignore the Panama Fair", New York Times, July 31, 1913
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