April 1913

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April 25, 1913: Mary Phagan, 15-year old pencil factory employee, murdered in Atlanta
April 24, 1913: The Woolworth Building, tallest in the world until 1930, opens to the public
April 29, 1913: Jewish factory superintendent Leo Frank arrested and charged with Phagan's murder

The following events occurred in April 1913:

April 1, 1913 (Tuesday)

King of Albania and would-be King of France Philippe
  • The Turkish government approved the terms of peace to end the First Balkan War, losing 60,000 square miles of its territory to the Balkan nations.[1]
  • The first trial of the assembly line method of manufacturing was made, with the Ford Motor Company testing the process in the putting together of a magneto for a flywheel motor at its factory in Highland Park, Michigan. The assembly process was split among 29 employees, each putting together a part of the magneto and then sending it over to another employee. The production time for each magneto was lowered from 20 minutes to 13 minutes. When the height of the line was raised the next year, and a moving conveyor was added, the time dropped to eight minutes, and then five minutes, a quadrupling of the production rate.[2]
  • Philippe, the Duke of Montpensier and pretender to the French throne, was proclaimed as the King of Albania by the provisional government.[3][4]
  • Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, offered a prize of £10,000 ($50,000) to the first persons who could make a direct flight across the Atlantic Ocean, within 72 hours or less. In 2013 money, the equivalent would be £730,000 or $1.1 million. The shortest trip was 1,900 miles between Ireland and Newfoundland, which John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown would accomplish on June 15, 1919.[5]
  • Former U.S. President William Howard Taft began serving as a professor of law at Yale University.[6]
  • The Riverview Hospital opened in Coquitlam, British Columbia as a mental health facility, and was handling just over 900 patients by the end of the year. It operated until 2012 when it closed to make way for new provincial mental health facility.[7]
  • Weekly newspaper Northern Herald began publication in Cairns, Australia. It would cease publication in 1939.[8]

April 2, 1913 (Wednesday)

April 3, 1913 (Thursday)

April 4, 1913 (Friday)

April 5, 1913 (Saturday)

April 6, 1913 (Sunday)

April 7, 1913 (Monday)

April 8, 1913 (Tuesday)

April 9, 1913 (Wednesday)

Miss Genevieve Ebbets
  • Ebbets Field, the new home of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers at 55 Sullivan Place, hosted its first official game. Genevieve Ebbets, daughter of Dodgers owner Charley Ebbets, threw the honorary first pitch. The stadium, new, but still the smallest in the National League, could hold 25,000 people, and bad weather limited the attendance to 10,000 in a 1-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.[42] The Dodgers would play their last game there on September 24, 1957, and the last baseball game there would be a Negro league contest, with the Havana Cubans defeating the Kansas City Monarchs 6-4 on August 23, 1959. Demolition would begin on February 23, 1960, and apartments now stand on the site.[43]

April 10, 1913 (Thursday)

April 11, 1913 (Friday)

Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson

April 12, 1913 (Saturday)

April 13, 1913 (Sunday)

April 14, 1913 (Monday)

April 15, 1913 (Tuesday)

April 16, 1913 (Wednesday)

William Osler, Neuropsychologist

April 17, 1913 (Thursday)

April 18, 1913 (Friday)

April 19, 1913 (Saturday)

  • Bulgaria and Serbia signed an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, but Montenegro refused to participate.[82][83]
  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent a message to the California state Senate and House, urging the members not to pass legislation aimed at barring Japanese persons from owning land in that state, requesting them to pass a broader law that would affect all aliens.[84]
  • Luis Mena, rebel general who had briefly served as the President of Nicaragua in August 1910 before being ousted by American intervention, was released from confinement in the Panama Canal Zone by orders of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.[85]
  • The two children of dancer Isadora Duncan were killed in an automobile accident, shortly after having dined with her in Paris. Deirdre Duncan, 6, and Patrick Duncan, 3, were drowned along with their governess, Annie Sim, when the car they were in rolled down a hill into the river Seine. Duncan herself would be killed in a freak accident on September 14, 1927, while a passenger in an automobile.[86]
  • Died: Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist, leading expert on the history of the Hittites (b. 1863)

April 20, 1913 (Sunday)

April 21, 1913 (Monday)

RMS Aquitania
A scene from Quo Vadis

April 22, 1913 (Tuesday)

April 23, 1913 (Wednesday)

April 24, 1913 (Thursday)

April 25, 1913 (Friday)

April 26, 1913 (Saturday)

  • Leo Frank, the 29-year old superintendent of the National Pencil Company factory in Atlanta, presented 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan her weekly pay after closing time. Mary's body was found the next morning at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Frank became the prime suspect in her murder, and was arrested three days later on April 29 for her murder.[110] A prominent Jew in Atlanta and president of the city's B'nai B'rith, Leo Frank would be convicted of Mary's murder despite the absence of evidence linking him to the killing. Although his death sentence would be commuted in 1915 to life imprisonment, a mob of angry citizens would kidnap him from the prison farm and lynch him.[111]
  • King Albert of Belgium opened the international exposition at Ghent.[112]
  • The Canadian Grenadier Guards Band was established in Montreal, which include Canadian composer Claude Champagne among the roster.[113][114]
  • French composer Erik Satie would complete his next humorous piano composition Descriptions automatiques but kept it secret from the public until its public performance by Spanish pianist and partner Ricardo Viñes.[115]
  • Born: Karl George, American, jazz musician, trumpet player for Count Basie and Stan Kenton, in St. Louis (d. 1978)

April 27, 1913 (Sunday)

April 28, 1913 (Monday)

April 29, 1913 (Tuesday)

April 30, 1913 (Wednesday)

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