On February 12, 1913, representatives from five towns on St. Andrews Bay met in Panama City to select a name for a proposed new county.

In 1913, representatives from Wisconsin's eight normal schools -- Superior Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Superior ), River Falls State Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-River Falls ), Stevens Point Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ), La Crosse State Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse ), Oshkosh State Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ), Whitewater Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater ), Milwaukee State Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ) and Platteville Normal School ( now the University of Wisconsin-Platteville )-- met in Madison to organize the Wisconsin State Normal Conference.

Having witnessed a plane crash in 1912, Banič constructed a prototype of a parachute in 1913 and tested it in Washington, D. C. before U. S. Patent Office and military representatives, jumping first from a 15-storey building and subsequently from an airplane in 1914.

By 1913 the District was divided into Wards, each electing representatives to the Board.

The growing popularity of the game internationally led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to IFAB in 1913.

The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913.

The Aceh War, also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War ( 1873 – 1913 ), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the U. S. in Singapore during early 1873.

* Great Lakes Storm of 1913

* The Great Catherine ( 1913 )

* 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.

* 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge ; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

* 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.

* 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20, 000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.

* 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

In the meantime, charges against Patterson were eventually dismissed because of his philanthropic efforts during the Great Dayton Flood of 1913.

* November 7 – 11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.

* Shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm and List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm

* Great Storm of 1913

Sun Yat-sen soon resigned from the office in favor of Yuan Shikai, who formally assumed the office of " President " ( 大總統, literally " Great President ", in contrast with the omission of ' great ' in the current title ) in 1913.

After acquiring the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & C ) in 1913 ( the current Northern City Line ), the Metropolitan Railway made plans to join the GN & C to the Waterloo & City or to the Circle Line, but these never came to fruition.

A photograph of the tree can be found ( plate 402 ) in Elwes & Henry's Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, published in 1913, wherein it is identified as U. nitens ( U. minor subsp.

By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road.

* Shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm

By 1913, American and German exports dominated the world steel market, as Britain slipped to third place.

It was fixed in a 1913 treaty between the Ottoman Empire and British officials acting on behalf of Kuwait's ruling family, which in 1899 had ceded control over foreign affairs to Britain.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

Allen's group soon disappeared, but the first IWW group in Britain was founded by members of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League around Guy Bowman in 1913.

Arthur Berry in 1913 patented a print-and-etch method in Britain, and in the United States Max Schoop obtained a patent to flame-spray metal onto a board through a patterned mask.

Sperry in Britain started with a factory in Pimlico, London in 1913, manufacturing gyroscopic compasses for the

In Britain he was the first ( and only ) President of the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland and also a President of the Bibliographical Society of London ( 1913 ).

In 1913, London's Daily Mail newspaper put up a ₤ 10, 000 prize for the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic which was soon " enhanced by a further sum " from the " Women's Aerial League of Great Britain ".

In Great Britain in 1913, similarly, the boat building firm J. Samuel White of Cowes on the Isle of Wight set up a new aircraft division and produced a flying boat in the United Kingdom.

The Prisoners ( Temporary Discharge for Ill Health ) Act 1913 ( also known as the " Cat and Mouse Act ") was an Act of Parliament passed in Britain under Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberal government in 1913.

pendula camperdownii: Henry, in Henry & Elwes, Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, 7: 1867, 1913.

* 17 November 1887 – 1 November 1913: His Royal Highness Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover and of Great Britain and Ireland

Edward " Ted " Grant ( born Isaac Blank ; 9 July 1913 – 20 July 2006 ) was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain.

Thomas Gerard " Gerry " Healy ( 3 December 1913 – 14 December 1989 ), was a political activist, a co-founder of the International Committee of the Fourth International, and, according to former prominent U. S. supporter David North, the leader of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain between 1950-85.

* 1913 – Britain crushes its own revolution but loses most of its empire

In 1915 Britain acquired a number of " autocanon de 75 mm mle 1913 " anti-aircraft guns, as a stopgap measure while it developed its own anti-aircraft alternatives.

William Francis " Bill " Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL ( 1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007 ) was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist ; he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

When news of the tragedy reached Britain in February 1913, it created a national mourning the like of which has rarely been seen since.

Because of their strategic position near the Dardanelles, the western powers, particularly Britain, insisted at the end of the Balkan Wars in 1913 that the island should be retained by the Ottoman Empire when the other Aegean islands were ceded to Greece.

In March 1913, Olney turned down President Wilson's offer to be the US Ambassador to Great Britain, and later when in May 1914, President Wilson offered Olney the Appointment as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, he declined that appointment.

James " Jock " Ritchie Haston ( 1913 – 1986 ) was a Trotskyist politician and General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great Britain.