June 1913
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This article covers current news and events in June 1913.
See also: Nekrolog June 1913
Daily events
Saturday June 7th
- Alaska / United States : The American- British researcher Hudson Stuck and the Alaskan Henry Peter Karstens , as well as the Athabasca Indians Walter Harper and Robert Tatum are the first people to reach the summit of Mount McKinley , the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 meters.
- Vienna / Austria : The Austrian Reserve Lieutenant Baron Friedrich Michael von R. experienced a fantastic night and wrote down his feelings in October of the same year. After his death, the family gave the manuscript to Stefan Zweig , who published it unprocessed in 1922.
- Charleston, West Virginia / United States against the president of United Mine Workers (UMW), John P. White , and 18 other officials of the union is a method for breach of the Sherman Antitrust Act before the "Federal Grand Jury " hard.
Tuesday June 10th
- Hungary : István Tisza , who was voted out in 1905, returns to head the Hungarian government. His predecessor, László Lukács , had to resign because of questionable campaign funding.
- Berlin / German Empire : The Nicodemus Church built by Fritz Gottlob is inaugurated . The building combines elements of the Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau and already hints at the beginning of modernism .
Wednesday June 11th

Emperor with a bow ornament
- Cuxhaven / German Empire : The largest ship in the world , the Imperator , is sailing to New York on her maiden voyage . It surpasses the largest passenger steamers to date, the Titanic, and its sister ship the Olympic by around 6,000 GRT .
- Ottoman Empire : An officer - a relative of Nazım Pasha , who was murdered in January - kills Grand Vizier Mahmud Şevket Pasha in retaliation. Under the new Grand Vizier, Said Halim Pasha , a comprehensive dictatorship is being built up, and 24 people, including political leaders of the opposition, are sentenced to death in connection with the attack.
Thursday June 12th
- German Empire : The SPD politician Ludwig Frank calls for a mass strike during a rally in Wilmersdorf . This is the only way to enforce the necessary democratization.
- Reykjavík / Iceland : A captain of the Danish coastguard arrests a young man for rowing with the blue and white flag of Iceland . The population protested the attack by pulling out blue and white flags from all over the city.
- Miami / United States : A ferry service from Miami to Miami Beach will be replaced by the 2.5 mile long Collins Bridge . It is the longest wooden bridge in the world when it opens.
Friday June 13th
- Canada : The RMS Empress of Asia , an ocean liner of the Canadian Pacific Line , is put into service. It will transport passengers , mail and cargo on the route across the Pacific between the Canadian west coast and East Asia .
- German Empire : The 57 kilometer long Lüneburg – Soltau line from Lüneburg to Soltau is opened by the Lüneburg – Soltau small railway.
Saturday June 14th
- Vienna / Austria : The first constituent assembly of the “ Austrian Composers Club ” takes place in Philipp Silber's apartment . The club not only aimed at a loose association of artists, but rather combative actions to enforce the very own concerns of the composer class.
- Santander / Spain : The football club Racing Santander is founded. In 1914 he received the attribute Real (dt. Royal ) and played in the 1928/29 season , making him one of the founding members of the Primera División .
- Kaliningrad / Prussia : A bronze figure in honor of the first zoo manager Hermann Claaß in the Königsberg zoo is unveiled. The sculpture was created by Walter Rosenberg and shows a boy feeding a panther and two of his cubs.
Tuesday June 17th
- Uruguay : Emilio Barbaroux's term of office as Foreign Minister of Uruguay begins.
- Beitou / Taiwan : The Hot Spring Museum , a former public bathhouse from the Japanese era, is built. It is famous for its English country house architecture.
- United Kingdom : Javary (later HMS Humber ) built for Brazil is launched. It is the model ship of the Humber class and is used together with its sister ships on the Flanders coast.
Wednesday June 18th
- United States : The USS Holland (SS-1) , the first submarine officially commissioned by the United States , is sold for $ 1,066.50 to Henry A. Hitner's Sons Company , who subsequently own it carelessly disposed of in November at the ships' graveyard (Petty Island).
- Breslau / German Empire : The Festival in German Rhymes by Gerhart Hauptmann is removed from the program after only 15 performances at the insistence of the protector of the exhibition of the century, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern .
- United States: John Ernest Williamson , whose father invented a transparent diving bell , takes the first photos from below the surface of the sea.
- South Africa : Parliament passes the Natives Land Act , a forerunner of the system known as apartheid from the 1948 general election . The law regulates the extensive administrative expropriation of the black population.
- German Empire : Heinrich Retzmann ends his command of the SMS Königsberg .
- Lichtenberg / German Empire: Due to the lack of sports facilities in the then still independent city, the city authorities decide to build a suitable sports facility. In the course of 1914, work on the Lichtenberg stadium began .
Friday June 20th
- United States : President Woodrow Wilson sends William Elliott Gonzales to Cuba as the United States Ambassador . About two months later, on August 9th, he presented his letter of accreditation to the Menocal government.
- Denmark : Carl Theodor Zahle begins his second term as Prime Minister of his country . His government, Zahle II , was in power for almost seven years, ending March 29, 1920 .
- Hanover / German Empire : After twelve years of construction, the New Town Hall is inaugurated. The building price was ten million marks and the building was built according to plans by the architect Hermann Eggert .
- Bremen-Walle / German Empire: Ernst Friedrich (or Erich) Schmidt, an apparently mentally confused 30-year-old teacher without a job kills five girls between the ages of seven and eight and injures 18 other children and five adults, some of them life-threateningly , in the rampage in Bremen .
- Heiligenstedten / German Empire: TSV Heiligenstedten is founded.
Tuesday June 24th
- Japanese Empire : Lieutenant General Kusunose Yukihiko takes over the post of Minister of Defense from Lieutenant General Kigoshi Yasutsuna in the Yamamoto I cabinet . The reason was the non-implementation of the Gumbu daijin gen'eki bukan sei law. By ratifying it, only active officers would have been allowed to become Minister of the Army instead of those who had previously been retired.
- Australia : Joseph Cook becomes Australia's 6th Prime Minister . His term of office lasted until September 17, 1914 .
- Gera / German Empire The foundation stone for the SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera is laid. The inauguration ceremony took place seven years later, on April 20, 1920 .
Wednesday June 25th
- Eilenburg / German Empire : The Prussian Army Administration presents plans that will make the city the site of III. Provide battalions of the 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72 . As a result, plans for the Eilenburg barracks begin in a previously undeveloped floodplain area of the Mulde near the train station.
- German Empire: Lieutenant General Martin Chales de Beaulieu takes over the leadership of the 12th Division , a major unit of the Prussian Army .
Thursday June 26th
- Bavaria / German Empire : On the initiative of the Royal Government Councilor Reubold, representatives of the State Committee for Nature Conservation , the Bavarian Botanical Society , the Bavarian Ornithological Society and the Natural History Association set up the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. , under the "Protectorate of His Royal Highness", Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria .
- Illinois / United States : Illinois is the first state east of the Mississippi River to introduce women's suffrage in presidential elections.
- Portugal : Raimundo Enes Meira is appointed civil governor of Viana do Castelo . He held this post until March 21, 1914.
- Berlin / German Empire : The student from Prague , who is considered to be the first author and art film, is shown to the censors who imposed a youth ban. The premiere will take place on August 22nd in Berlin's Mozart Hall.
- Australia : HMAS Sydney , the second Town-class cruiser , enters service.
- Illinois / United States : Illinois is the first state east of the Mississippi River to introduce women's suffrage in presidential elections.
Friday June 27th
- Alberta / Canada : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces that it plans to build the sixth temple outside the United States, the Cardston Alberta Temple . In the same year, on November 13, the groundbreaking ceremony took place, and almost ten years later, on August 26, 1923, the temple was dedicated.
- Italy : The country's naval aviators are founded under the name Servizio Aereo della Regia Marina .
- Schortewitz / German Empire : The archaeological excavations under the direction of Walter Götze-Geuz, during which the Schortewitz stone grave was discovered, which has been ongoing since May 20 , is ending.
Saturday June 28th
- Pavlovsk / Russia : In the summer residence of the Russian tsars , the 2nd symphony by Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski will be premiered under the direction of AP Aslanow .
- Balkans : During the night Bulgarian troops attack the Greek and Serbian armies at the same time without Bulgaria officially declaring war on the two states. The fighting between Serres and Saloniki ended with a victory for the prepared defenders. The Second Balkan War begins.
See also
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June .
- Category: Day of commemoration, celebration or action in June (catalog with Wikipedia articles for June).
Web links
Commons : June 1913 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ "19 United Miners indicted as Trust", New York Times , June 7, 1913
- ↑ http://www.miamibeach411.com/History/photo_collins_bridge_1.html
- ↑ Hartmut Krones : 80 Years of the Austrian Composers Association 1913–1993 , in: Austrian Composers Association , Festschrift 1993 (PDF; 205 kB)
- ↑ List of Foreign Ministers of Uruguay since 1828 ( Memento of February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Taipei Hot Springs Association: The Beitou Hot Spring Museum ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ↑ Newspaper article about the whereabouts of the Holland. Unknown newspaper, November 12, 1913, accessed October 7, 2009 .
- ^ Palle B. Petterson, Cameras Into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928 (McFarland, 2011) p135
- ^ Robert A. Simons, et al., Indigenous Peoples And Real Estate Valuation (Springer, 2008) p178; Lauren Segal and Sharon Cort, One Law, One Nation: The Making of the South African Constitution (Jacana Media, 2012)
- ↑ According to some sources: "Ernst Friedrich Schmidt" ( The mass murder in the girls 'school. In: Reichspost , June 21, 1913, p. 22 (online at ANNO ). ), "Friedrich Schmidt" ( terrifying act of an insane teacher in a girls' school in Bremen .. In: Neue Freie Presse , June 21, 1913, p. 9 (online at ANNO ). ) or "Erich Schmidt" ( Kills 3, wounds 17 in a classroom , The New York Times of June 21, 1913)
- ^ Governo Civil de Viana do Castelo ( Memento of November 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Götze 1913
- ↑ Katrin Boeckh: From the Balkan Wars to the First World War. Small State Policy and Ethnic Self-Determination in the Balkans . Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56173-1 , p. 58