December 1913

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December 21, 1913: The first crossword puzzle is introduced
December 12, 1913: The world's most famous painting, stolen from the Louvre Museum two years earlier, is recovered by police in Italy

The following events occurred in December 1913:

December 1, 1913 (Monday)

December 2, 1913 (Tuesday)

December 3, 1913 (Wednesday)

December 4, 1913 (Thursday)

Soddy
Dr. Todd
  • For the first time in the history of the German Empire, the Reichstag passed a vote of no-confidence against the Chancellor, with 293 votes for, 54 against, and four abstentions against the government of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Leaders of each non-governing party declared the actions of the government in relation to the Zabern Affair were "not the view of the Reichstag".
  • Vladimir Lenin published his paper "The Poverty of People's Teachers" in the political magazine Za Pravdu.
  • Georgetown, Colorado, had the highest recorded snowfall in a 24-hour period in U.S. history, with 63 inches (5 feet, 3 inches or 1.6 metres of snow.
  • The word "isotope", referring to a variation of a chemical element containing the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons, was introduced into common usage when the British scientific journal Nature published an article by Frederick Soddy, a pioneer in radiochemistry; Soddy had postulated the existence of isotopes in a February 27 address before Britain's Royal Society, referring to "atoms of the same chemical properties, non-separable by any known process", but without using the term, which was suggested to him by his friend, Edinburgh physician Margaret Todd.
  • The opera L'amore medico by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari premiered at the Hoftheater in Dresden.

December 5, 1913 (Friday)

  • Isabella Newman of Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia, was arrested on suspicion of several reported disappearances of infants in Melbourne. Investigators connected her to several advertisements that took in infants born out of wedlock for adoption in exchange for fee of services. Upon learning that she was to be taken into Melbourne for further questioning, Newman asked to be excused to change into traveling clothes before locking herself in her bedroom and taking strychnine. Investigation following her suicide uncovered at least three infant bodies, two on the Newman farm property and a third in a different location.

December 6, 1913 (Saturday)

December 7, 1913 (Sunday)

December 8, 1913 (Monday)

December 9, 1913 (Tuesday)

December 10, 1913 (Wednesday)

Gitmo

December 11, 1913 (Thursday)

December 12, 1913 (Friday)

Emperor Menelik II
Lij Iyasu

December 13, 1913 (Saturday)

Kaulen, who spent 3½ days in the air

December 14, 1913 (Sunday)

December 15, 1913 (Monday)

December 16, 1913 (Tuesday)

December 17, 1913 (Wednesday)

December 18, 1913 (Thursday)

December 19, 1913 (Friday)

  • Boxers Jack Johnson and Battling Jim Johnson fought a 10-round match for the world heavyweight title in Paris. The novelty of two black professionals competing for the world title drew crowds, but a sportswriter from The Indianapolis Star observed spectators becoming unruly, and demanding their money back, when it became apparent that neither boxer was putting up a fight. At one point, Jack Johnson was only using his right arm to box. Organizers claimed Johnson's left arm had been broken during the third round, but there was no evidence of any injury. The fight was ruled a draw, and Jack Johnson retained his title.
  • Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles premiered a zarzuela, or musical play, titled El cóndor pasa at the Teatro Mazzi in Lima.

December 20, 1913 (Saturday)

December 21, 1913 (Sunday)

December 22, 1913 (Monday)

December 23, 1913 (Tuesday)

Fed Reserve.JPG

December 24, 1913 (Wednesday)

December 25, 1913 (Thursday)

December 26, 1913 (Friday)

Bierce

December 27, 1913 (Saturday)

Joe Tinker

December 28, 1913 (Sunday)

December 29, 1913 (Monday)

The Adventures of Kathlyn

December 30, 1913 (Tuesday)

December 31, 1913 (Wednesday)

  • The second cabinet under Romanian Prime Minister Titu Maiorescu was dissolved.
  • Airplane co-inventor Orville Wright made the first public demonstration of the next generation of airplanes, the Wright Model E, an airplane that had come equipped with an autopilot that could not only keep the plane in the air, but could also turn the plane on a preset course. Before a crowd of onlookers at Huffman Prairie outside Dayton, Ohio, Wright showed off the new "automatic stabilizer" and "made seven successive turns with his hands completely removed from the controls of the airplane", holding his hands high above his head so that the onlookers could see that he wasn't touching the controls, before taking back over to come in for a landing. For his accomplishment, timed by the Wright for the last day of the year to avoid being bested by his rival, Glenn Curtiss, Wright won the Collier Trophy, awarded by the Aero Club of America, for the year's most significant innovation in aeronautics.
  • For the first time in its 6,400 year history, the Holy City of Jerusalem was the site of an airplane landing. The pilot, French Army General Gaëtan Bonnier landed his Blériot XI near the Pool of Siloam, and was welcomed by Jerusalem Mayor Hussein al-Husayni, the executive appointed by the Ottoman Empire.
  • The village of Lakeview, Alberta was established.

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