What Happened in June 1913

Historical Events

Emily Davison Trampled at the Derby

Jun 4 English suffragette Emily Davison is trampled and mortally wounded by a racechorse called Anmer, ridden by Herbert Jones and owned by King George V, during running of the Derby at Epsom Downs in Surrey; Jones thrown from horse, horse finishes the race jockey-less, Davison dies from her injuries 4 days later. [1]

Jun 5 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
Jun 6 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
Jun 7 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America's highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens
Jun 11 Grand Vizir Mahmud Shevket Pasha is assassinated, resulting in continuing Young Turk terrorism until WWI
Jun 12 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
Jun 13 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
Jun 13 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games

Funeral of Emily Davison

Jun 14 Funeral for Emily Davison includes a procession of 6,000 suffragettes in London, England [1]

Immigration Act

Jun 14 The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

Jun 14 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Defending champion Mary Browne beats Dorothy Green 6-2, 7-5
Jun 15 The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes
Jun 16 South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans
Jun 19 Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves
Jun 20 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
Jun 20 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
Jun 21 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
Jun 24 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Englishman J H Taylor wins Championship for a 5th and final time, 8 strokes ahead of defending champion Ted Ray
Jun 25 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
Jun 25 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
Jun 29 An attack by Bulgarian General Michael Savov on Greek and Serbian positions causes the start of the Second Balkan War
Jun 30 To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup

Events in 1913

Famous Birthdays

Jun 1 Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
Jun 2 Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye), (d. 1980)
Jun 2 Bert Farber, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey, Vic Damone), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2005)
Jun 2 Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
Jun 3 Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
Jun 4 Bruno Bettinelli, Italian composer and teacher (Musica per archi), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2004)
Jun 5 Friedrich Wildgans, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1965)
Jun 6 Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, born in Pescara, Italy (d. 1991)
Jun 6 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, born in Krhanice, Czech Republic (d. 1993)
Jun 7 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1994)
Jun 7 David Cox, British medievalist (d. 1994)
Jun 8 Graham Watson, British literary agent (Curtis Brown, including authors Daphne du Maurier and John Steinbeck), born in Newcastle, England (d. 2002)
Jun 8 Jagamas János, Hungarian composer, born in Dés, Romania (d. 1997)
Jun 8 Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, born in Berlin (d. 1998)
Jun 9 Alida Bosshardt, Dutch Salvation Army officer (worked with Prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 2007)
Jun 9 Patrick Steptoe, English scientist (developed in vitro fertilization), born in Oxford, England (d. 1988)

Jun 10 John Edmunds, American composer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1986)
Jun 10 Thor Johnson, American conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1947-58; Nashville Symphony, 1967-75), born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (d. 1975)
Jun 10 Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov, Soviet composer and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, born in Yelets, Russia (d. 2007)
Jun 10 Wilbur J. Cohen, American pioneer of social security, worked on the New Deal, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1987)
Jun 11 John Elliott Terry, British film financier (National Film Finance Corp) (d. 1995)
Jun 11 Risë Stevens [Steenberg], American mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1938-61 - "Carmen"), vocal coach, and arts administrator, born in the Bronx, NYC (d. 2013)

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

Jun 11 American Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Green Bay Packers 1959-67; NFL Coach of the Year 1959, 61; Super Bowl I, II), born in Brooklyn, New York

Jun 12 Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general, born in Sainte-Monique-de-Nicolet, Quebec (d. 1996)
Jun 13 Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), born in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape (d. 1989)
Jun 13 Ralph Edwards, American TV host (This is Your Life), born in Merino, Colorado (d. 2005)
Jun 15 Trevor Huddleston, English Anglican bishop in South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (wrote Naught for Your Comfort), born in Bedford, England (d. 1998)
Jun 17 Felix Hartlaub, German historian and writer, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1945)
Jun 18 Sammy Cahn [Cohen], American lyricist ("Three Coins in a Fountain"; "High Hopes"; "Call Me Irresponsible"), born in New York City (d. 1993)
Jun 18 Sylvia Porter, American financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book), born in Patchogue, New York (d. 1991)
Jun 21 Irving Shulman, American author and screenwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1995)
Jun 22 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Polish lawyer and advisor to Solidarity labor union, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1994)
Jun 23 Helen Humes, American jazz and blues singer (Harry James; Count Basie; "Million Dollar Secret"), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1981)
Jun 23 Jacques Rabemananjara, Malagasy playwright, poet (Antsa; Antidote), and politician (Vice President, 1971-72), born in Maroantsetra in Antongil Bay, Madagascar (d. 2005)
Jun 23 Tom Blackburn, American novelist and screenwriter of the Western genre, born in Raton, New Mexico (d. 1992)
Jun 23 William P. Rogers, American Republican politician (US Secretary of State, 1969-73), born in Norfolk, New York (d. 2001)
Jun 24 John Kubris, Czech paratrooper in WWII (killed Nazi head of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid), born in Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia, Austri-Hungary (d. 1921)
Jun 24 Max van Praag, Dutch popular music singer (Glück Auf!), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1991)
Jun 25 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian, born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2005)
Jun 26 Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician, born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique (d. 2008)
Jun 26 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist and inventor (stored program concept for computers), born in Dudley, England (d. 2010)
Jun 27 Philip Guston, Canadian-American abstract painter, muralist, and printmaker (To Fellini), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1980)
Jun 27 Willie Mosconi, American pool player (World C'ship pocket billiards 1941-57), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
Jun 28 Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (Der Bockerer), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2007)
Jun 28 George Lloyd, English composer (The Serf; Pervigilium Veneris (The Vigil of Venus); John Socman), born in St. Ives, Cornwall, England (d. 1998)
Jun 28 Walter Oesau, German fighter pilot (WWII), born in Farnewinkel, Germany (d. 1944)
Jun 30 Alfonso López Michelsen, 24th President of Colombia (1974-78), born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 2007)
Jun 30 Harry Wismer, American sports broadcaster (NBC Blue Network, ABC, voice of Washington Redskins) and AFL team owner (NY Titans), born in Port Huron, Michigan (d. 1967)

Born in 1913

Famous Weddings

A. A. Milne

Jun 4 Author A. A. Milne (31) weds Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt

Famous Deaths

Jun 2 Alfred Austin, English poet laureate of England (Garden), dies at 78
Jun 3 Josef Richard Rozkošný, Czech composer, dies at 79
Jun 5 Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, dies at 61

Emily Davison (1872-1913)

Jun 8 English suffragette, dies from head injury after being hit by King George V's horse at the Derby at Epsom Downs four days earlier, at 40

Jun 11 Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
Jun 13 Jonathan Hutchinson, English surgeon and scientist, dies at 84
Jun 21 Gaston Tarry, French mathematician, dies at 69
Jun 21 Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37
Jun 24 Frank Lynes, American composer, dies at 55
Jun 28 Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian lawyer, politician (President of Brazil, 1898-1902), and coffee grower, dies at 72

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