Appointed as Governor of New South Wales in March 1913, on 30 May 1913 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ).

Appointed LVO on 29 June 1910 and promoted to colonel on 4 October 1911, he retired from the British Army on 8 November 1913 and became Master of Foxhounds for the Hertfordshire Hunt.

Appointed Flotteninspekteur ( Fleet Inspector ) in 1912, Haus succeeded Rudolf Montecuccoli as Marinekommandant ( Navy Commander ) and Chef der Marinesektion ( Chief of the Naval Section of the War Ministry ) on 24 February 1913.

Appointed to the Legislative Council in 1913, he spent four rather quiet years as a member of that chamber before his death at St. John's on September 19, 1917.

In 1913, he was appointed a King's Counsel.

Maugham was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1890, and then embarked upon a legal career, becoming a King's Counsel in 1913.

Buckmaster was also Counsel to the University of Oxford from 1911 to 1913, Director of The Press Bureau, 1914 to 1915, and a member of The Interallied Conference on Finance and Supplies.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

Bach's music, for whose concerts Schweitzer took the organ part regularly until 1913.

On departure for Lambaréné in 1913 he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments ( to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard ).

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

Emmerson Hall, built in 1913, is particularly interesting for the variety of building stones used.

Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg 1913 / 14 ( the eighth All-Russian Masters ' Tournament ).

E. Mark cites Caproni Ca 30 and Bristol TB. 8, both of 1913, as one of the first of heavier-than-air aircraft purposely designed for bombing.

Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.

1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest and one of the largest contemporary English encyclopedias.

U. S. advertisement for the 11th edition from the May 1913 issue of National Geographic Magazine

These new concepts prompted the publication of the Ideen ( Ideas ) in 1913, in which they were at first incorporated, and a plan for a second edition of the Logische Untersuchungen.

Louis was home schooled for the first ten years of his life: he was then sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire and on to the Royal Naval College, Osborne in May 1913.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

Poster for a Biograph Studios release from 1913.

A leading example of this use of close in reverse-angle cutting is His Last Fight ( 1913 ), directed by Ralph Ince for Vitagraph, in which one-third of the cuts are between a shot and the reverse angle.

Created in 1913 for use in color film processes such as Kinemacolor, panchromatic was first used in a black-and-white film for exterior sequences in Queen of the Sea ( 1918 ) and originally available as a special order product.

* 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes ; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

In 1913 Eiffel was awarded the Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics by the Smithsonian Institute.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

When he was in Belgrade in 1912 and 1913, preparing for his exams at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, Princip's sole friend was Momčilo Nastasijević, who grew up to become a poet and dramatist.

In 1912 the United States Supreme Court adopted a new set of rules of equity which became effective on February 1, 1913.

He gave a further $ 10 million in 1913 to endow the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, a grant-making foundation.

* 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

In 1913, the Conservative Movement founded its congregational arm, the United Synagogue of America, which would later become the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

Pathé-Frères set up a new subsidiary company in the United States called Eclectic in 1913, and in 1914 this began production of features at the Pathé plant in New Jersey.

In 1913, United Fruit established the Tela Railroad Company and shortly thereafter a similar subsidiary, the Trujillo Railroad Company ; these two railroads managed the concessions which the Honduran government granted them.

* 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 ° F (~ 56. 7 ° C ), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.

* 1913 – The United States introduces an income tax.

* 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.

* 1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.

The School of Physiotherapy at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1913, and the United States ' 1914 Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which graduated " reconstruction aides.

Finally, ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 made possible modern income taxes, by placing the income tax firmly in the class of indirect excises where it always belonged, and thus needing no apportionment.

* 1913 – John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, 67th United States Attorney General ( d. 1988 )

Thomas Riley Marshall ( March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ) under Woodrow Wilson.

He launched a final appeal to the United States Supreme Court but left office in January 1913 while the case was still pending.

Category: 1913 in the United States

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 ) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.

Woodrow Wilson sworn in as the 28th President of the United States March 4, 1913

* November 9 – John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, 67th United States Attorney General ( b. 1913 )

Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to Chicago.

; 1913, New York – United States premiere