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next turn year 1913

events

September[edit] Main article: September 1913 (month)

September 7–8 – The Fourth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association (the last occasion on which Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud will meet) takes place in Munich.

September 9 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. Imperial Russian Army pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first person to loop an airplane, flying a Nieuport IV monoplane over Syretzk Aerodrome near Kiev, Russia.

Helgoland Island air disaster: The first fatalities aboard a German airship occur, when the Imperial German Navy Zeppelin dirigible LZ 14 (naval designation L 1) is forced down into the North Sea off Heligoland during a thunderstorm, killing 16 of the 22 men on board.

September 10 – Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté.

September 13 – The Bell of Chersonesos is returned by France to Russia after having been seized during the Crimean War.

September 17 – In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.

September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.

October[edit] Main article: October 1913 October 1 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.

Nearly-completed Ford Model Ts at the Highland Park Plant

October 7 – The Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant in Highland Park, Michigan, near Detroit, becomes the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the moving assembly line, significantly speeding up production of the Model T.

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.

October 10 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.

Yuan Shikai is elected President of the Republic of China.[citation needed]

October 11 – The Philadelphia Athletics win the deciding game of the 1913 World Series, over baseball's New York Giants, winning 3–1 to take the series in five games.

October 14 – Senghenydd colliery disaster: An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales kills 439 miners, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.[16]

October 16 – The British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.[19] Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig October 18 – The Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany is finished.

October 19 – The DLRG (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.

October 26 – Victoriano Huerta elected president of Mexico.

October 28–December 2 – Zabern Affair: Acts of aggression by the Prussian garrison at Zabern, Alsace-Lorraine provoke political debate across the German Empire.

October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.

November[edit] Main article: November 1913 November 5 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives. December[edit]

Main article: December 1913 December 1 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.

Buenos Aires Underground, the first in South America, opens. December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested.

December 19 – The Raker Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson, allowing the City of San Francisco to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.

December 23 – The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States, by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act.

December 30 – Italy returns the Mona Lisa to France.