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Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Frank J. Hall (Democratic) (until January 13), William P. O'Neill (Democratic) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: George W. Clarke (Republican) (until January 16), William L. Harding (Republican) (starting January 16)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Richard Joseph Hopkins (Republican) (until January 13), Sheffield Ingalls (Republican) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Edward J. McDermott (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Thomas C. Barret (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Robert Luce (Republican) (until month and day unknown), David I. Walsh (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Frank M. Byrne (Republican) (until January 8), Edward Lincoln Abel (Republican) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Nathaniel Baxter, Jr. (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Newton H. White (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.
February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
February 4 – Rosa Parks is born.
February 17 – The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays the works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early twentieth century.
March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Procession takes place in Washington, D.C., initiated and organized by Alice Paul and led by Inez Milholland on horseback.
March 4
Woodrow Wilson is sworn in as the 28th President of the United States, and Thomas R. Marshall is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey form part of the Department of Commerce.
The first U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds is passed.
March 7 – The British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbor.[1]
March 13 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
March 25 – Great Dayton Flood: Four days of rain in the Miami Valley flood the region and mark the worst natural disaster in Ohio's recorded history, killing over 360 people and destroying 20,000 homes, chiefly in Dayton.
April–June[]
April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world at this date and for more than a decade after.
April 26 – Mary Phagan is raped and strangled on the premises of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. Leo Frank is tried and convicted for the crime.
May 1 – The Sherwood Hotel opened in Greene, NY
May – The Paul Émile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indecency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery.
May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
June 13 – An International Railway (New York – Ontario)trolley and passengers are buried under the contents of an overhead garbage chute that breaks in Niagara Falls, New York.
June 15 – Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines concludes with U.S. troops under General John J. Pershing taking Bug Bagsak from defending Moro rebels, killing at least 500.
July–September[]
July 3 – The fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of American Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
July 10 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest recorded in the U.S. (as of 2004).
August 3 – Strike action by agricultural workers in Wheatland, California, degenerates into the "Wheatland hop riot", one of the first major farm labor confrontations in the state.
September 8 – The largest commercial office building in the world opens in Saint Louis, Missouri, to great fanfare. The Railroad Exchange building houses 31 acres under one roof, and its central tenant, Famous-Barr Co., becomes the world's largest department store with over 1,500,000 square feet.
September 19 – Francis Ouimet wins the U.S. Open (golf) championship by five strokes, becoming the first amateur to ever win the event.
October–December[]
October 3 – The United States Revenue Act of 1913 re-imposes the federal income tax and lowers basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%.
October 7 – The Ford Motor Company starts production of the Model T on the assembly line in Detroit
October 10 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
October 31
Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913: Public transport employees in Indianapolis go on strike, shutting down mass transit in the city and sparking riots when strikebreakers attempt to restart services.
The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.
November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
November 26 – Phi Sigma Sigma, the first non-sectarian sorority, is founded at Hunter College in New York.
December 1 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production).
December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
December 23 – The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow Wilson.
December 24 – Italian Hall disaster: 73 people are killed in a stampede at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan (59 of them children) during a party for over 400 miners and their families involved in the Copper Country strike of 1913–14.
Undated[]
The two cities of "Winston" and "Salem" in North Carolina; officially merge to become Winston-Salem.
Portuguese emigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913) ends.
The National Temperance Council is founded to promote the temperance movement.
R. J. Reynolds introduces Camel, the first packaged cigarette.
First Erector Set construction toy marketed.
Louis Armstrong begins playing the cornet, in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs.
January 1 – Norman Rosten, poet, playwright and novelist (died 1995)
January 6 – Loretta Young, actress (died 2000)
January 9 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died 1994)
January 15 – Lloyd Bridges, film and television actor (died 1998)
January 29 – Victor Mature, film actor (died 1999)
January 31 – Murray Bowen, psychiatrist, pioneer of family therapy (died 1990)
February 4 – Rosa Parks, African American Civil Rights activist (died 2005)[2]
February 14 – Jimmy Hoffa, labor union leader (died 1975)
February 27 – Irwin Shaw, playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died 1984)
March 7 – Gordon Willey, archaeologist (died 2002)
March 31 – Etta Baker, Piedmont blues guitarist (died 2006)
May 16 – Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist and bandleader (died 1987)
June 11 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (died 1970)