Today in History for May 1913

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

1st - Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC
6th - King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
7th - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
9th - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
10th - 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8
10th - Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
12th - Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
13th - 1st four engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
14th - French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
14th - Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
19th - Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
20th - 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4
26th - Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
26th - Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate.
29th - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
30th - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
30th - New country of Albania, forms
30th - John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
30th - as managers who have won 1,000 games
31st - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
31st - Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 52 of 52

1st - Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1st - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
2nd - Nigel Patrick, London Engld, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold)
3rd - Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
3rd - William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
4th - Lady Katherine Brandram, née Princess of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
5th - Tyrone Power, Cleve, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
6th - Carmen Cavallaro, NYC, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe)
6th - Gyula David, composer
6th - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
6th - Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
6th - Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
6th - Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
8th - Sidney James, [Cohen], Johannesburg, actor (Carry On)
9th - John Hayes, Admiral
9th - Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
11th - Clare Grundman, composer
11th - Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show)
11th - Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
13th - Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
13th - William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
13th - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
16th - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
17th - Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
17th - Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
17th - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
18th - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
19th - Albert Hardy, photographer
19th - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India
20th - Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
20th - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
20th - William Hewlett, cofounder (Hewlett-Packard Co)
21st - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
22nd - Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress (Commensaal)
22nd - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, CA, actor (Docks of NY)
23rd - Ian Graeme, major-general
23rd - Ruth Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico
24th - Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)
24th - Willi Daume, olympic organizer
25th - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman
25th - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
26th - Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician
Actor Peter Cushing (26th) 26th - Peter Cushing, England, actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who)
26th - Robert Shaw, town planner
27th - Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop (Southwark England)
27th - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
28th - Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
29th - Douglas Black, physician
29th - Iris Adrian, LA California, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
29th - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
30th - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
31st - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

1st - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
16th - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
18th - Otto Reubke, composer, dies at 70
28th - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies

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