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.

* 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.

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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

The Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America was founded in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1903, and Daughters of the Nile was founded in 1913 in Seattle, Washington.

In 1879 John Singer Sargent painted a small-scale copy of Las Meninas, and in 1882 painted a homage to the painting in his The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, while the Irish artist Sir John Lavery chose Velázquez's masterpiece as the basis for his portrait The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 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.

His election was historic: ( 1 ) first Republican U. S. senator from Texas since Reconstruction, ( 2 ) third Republican from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction, ( 3 ) first Republican from a former Confederate state since Newell Sanders of Tennessee left office in 1913 ( a gap of forty-eight years ), and ( 4 ) first Republican from the former Confederacy ever to win popular election.

The corner of 42nd Street and Broadway, at the southeast corner of Times Square, was the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States of America, which was conceived and mapped in 1913.

The Aero Car was conceived by J. Enoch Thompson, and built in 1913 by The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Co. Limited, according to the design of Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres y Quevedo.

The theatre was, along with the adjacent St Martin's conceived by their architect, W. G. R. Sprague, as companions, born at the same time in 1913, but the First World War interrupted the construction of the latter for three years.

By 1913, changing tastes and the financial strain of his new twelve-story Craftsman Building in Manhattan, conceived as a department store, began to take their toll ; in 1915 he filed for bankruptcy, stopping publication of The Craftsman in December 1916 and selling Craftsman Farms in 1917.

In 1913, Fisher conceived and helped develop the Lincoln Highway, the first road for the automobile across the entire United States of America.

Leadbeater and Besant ( Adyar School of Theosophy ), and later Alice Bailey, though, in formalising Theosophical cosmology around 1913, conceived that the etheric plane constituted four higher subplanes of the physical plane.

Floor Games is often characterized as a " companion book " to Wells's Little Wars ( 1913 ), though as the text of the earlier book makes clear, it was conceived of as a self-standing volume that the author might eventually decide to follow with a text devoted purely to wargames.

A daughter, Charlotte Becker, conceived shortly before his arrest, died in 1913, less than a day after her birth, and is buried alongside him at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Stravinsky first conceived of writing the ballet in 1913 and completed it in short score by October 1917.

In 1913 he also became the first president to deliver the State of the Union address in person since 1801 when Thomas Jefferson discontinued this practice.

Completed in 1913, the Jefferson Memorial building was built near the main entrance to the Exposition, at Lindell and DeBalivere.

The county was established in 1913, and was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third U. S. President.

The Sterne Fountain was given to the city in 1913 to honor the contribution of Jacob and Ernestine Sterne, a Jewish couple who settled in Jefferson before the Civil War and became prominent citizens who managed the post office and were involved in numerous civic and cultural projects.

Jefferson Davis ( May 6, 1862 – January 3, 1913 ), commonly known as Jeff Davis, was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and the 20th Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

However, U. S. Senator Jefferson Davis had died on January 3, after the legislature had re-elected him to a new term beginning March 4, 1913 ; his seat was now open.

In 1909, the fair's directors gave the balance of the remaining profits from the fair toward the construction of a monument to Thomas Jefferson, which when completed in 1913 became the Missouri History Museum building.

The museum also is home to a 16-ton statue of Thomas Jefferson sculpted by Karl Bitter, which was unveiled at the opening of the museum in 1913.

The VHSL was established in 1913 by members of both the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union at the University of Virginia to originally serve as a debating league for the state's high schools.

George Washington Custis Lee ( 1832 – 1913 ) on horseback, with staff reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade in Richmond, Virginia, June 3, 1907, in front of monument to Jefferson Davis.

After a three-year term as superintendent for Richmond, Missouri schools, Baker returned to Jefferson City as superintendent in 1913.