Month August 1913 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1913

• Day of Week 3rd » A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
• Day of Week 10th » Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest (1913) called Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• Day of Week 13th » Otto Witte, an Acrobatics e.g acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
• 13th » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• Day of Week 16th » Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
• 16th » Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS known as Queen Mary.
• Day of Week 28th » Wilhelmina of the Netherlands e.g Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• Day of Week 31st » Police attack a union rally during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two people and injuring hundreds.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1913

• 2nd » Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic (d. 1980)
• 3rd » Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)
• 4th » Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (d. 1980)
• 7th » George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
• 9th » Wilbur Norman Christiansen, Australian astronomer and engineer (d. 2007)
• 10th » Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
• 10th » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (d. 1983)
• 10th » Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 11th » Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (d. 1976)
• 11th » Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
• 11th » Angus Wilson, English author and academic (d. 1991)
• 12th » Richard L. Bare, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 13th » Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
• 13th » Fred Davis (snooker player) or Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
• 14th » Paul Dean (baseball) called Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 16th » Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 17th » Mark Felt, American agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008)
• 17th » Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989)
• 17th » Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970)
• 18th » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
• 19th » John Argyris, Greek engineer and academic (d. 2004)
• 19th » Peter Kemp (writer) e.g Peter Kemp, Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1993)
• 19th » Richard Simmons (actor) known as Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
• 20th » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 22nd » Leonard Pagliero, English businessman and pilot (d. 2008)
• 22nd » Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993)
• 24th » Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 25th » Don DeFore, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 25th » Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)
• 27th » Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
• 28th » Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)
• 28th » Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (d. 2009)
• 28th » Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
• 28th » Robert Irving (conductor) named Robert Irving, English conductor (d. 1991)
• 28th » Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (d. 1996)
• 28th » Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (d. 1975)
• 29th » Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
• 29th » K. Jeyakody, Sri Lankan politician
• 31st » Helen Levitt, American photographer and cinematographer (d. 2009)
• 31st » Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (d. 2012)

Famous Deaths for August 1913

• 2nd » Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)

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