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UK-related events during the year of 1913
Events from the year 1913 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
Emmeline Pankhurst in prison dress.
Tragedy at the
Derby :
Emily Davison and the horse Anmer.
1913 'Bullnose'
Morris Oxford .
1 January – the
British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films.
[1]
13 January –
Edward Carson founds the
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) by unifying several existing
loyalist
militias to resist
home rule in
Ireland .
[2]
15 January –
unemployment and
maternity benefits introduced.
[1]
30 January – the
House of Lords rejects the Third
Irish Home Rule Bill for the second time, by 326 to 69.
10 February – news reaches
London of the failure of
Capt. Scott 's 1912 polar expedition.
[3]
15 February –
Barry Jackson opens the
Birmingham Repertory Theatre .
19 February –
suffragette arson attack on a house being built for
David Lloyd George near
Walton Heath Golf Club .
Emmeline Pankhurst (in a speech in Cardiff this evening) claims to have incited this and other incidents.
[4]
26 February – the
Royal Flying Corps (RFC) establishes the first operational military airfield for
fixed-wing aircraft in the UK at
Montrose in Scotland.
[5]
c.1 March – British steamship Calvados disappears in the
Marmara Sea with 200 on board.
[6]
[7]
28 March – the
Morris Oxford 2-seater car goes on sale.
[1]
2 April –
suffragette
Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years of
penal servitude .
[8]
11 April – the
Nevill Ground 's
cricket pavilion in
Royal Tunbridge Wells is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack.
21 April – the
Cunard
ocean liner
RMS Aquitania , built by
John Brown & Company , is launched on the
River Clyde .
9 May–11 July – major industrial strike in the
Black Country of England.
20 May – the first ever
Chelsea Flower Show is held in
London .
[8]
4 June –
Emily Davison , a suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the
Epsom Derby . She is trampled and dies four days later on 8 June, never having regained consciousness.
[9]
26 June – first female
magistrate appointed, Miss Emily Dawson, in London.
7 July – the Irish Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by
Bonar Law to obstruct it.
26 July – 50,000 women take part in a pilgrimage in
Hyde Park, London organised by the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .
[9]
? August – fifty
sperm whales
strand on the coast of
Cornwall .
[10]
7 August – American-born aviation pioneer
Samuel Franklin Cody is killed with his passenger (English cricketer
William Evans ) when his
Cody Floatplane breaks up in a flight from
Farnborough, Hampshire .
13 August – invention of
stainless steel by
Harry Brearley in
Sheffield (concurrent with its invention in the United States by
Elwood Haynes ).
[8]
26 August –
Dublin lock-out : members of
James Larkin 's
Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the
Dublin United Tramways Company begin strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by the chairman, businessman
William Martin Murphy .
[11]
31 August ('Bloody Sunday') – Dublin lock-out: the
Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400 in dispersing a demonstration in
Sackville Street (Dublin) .
[2]
[11]
September –
Army Manoeuvres of 1913 : a fighting retreat from a position near
Daventry and the use of spotter aircraft are practised.
6 September –
Arsenal F.C. , previously based in
Plumstead ,
South London , move into their new
stadium at
Highbury ,
North London .
[12]
18 September –
Avro 504 military aircraft first flies;
[13] more than 10,000 will be built.
c. 1 October –
Caroline Spurgeon named Hildred Carlile professor of English literature,
University of London , the second woman
professor in England.
[14]
14 October – 439 miners die in the
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster , Britain's worst pit disaster.
[8]
16 October –
HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at
Portsmouth Dockyard as the
Royal Navy 's first oil-fired
battleship .
[15]
20 December – serious fire at Portsmouth Dockyard destroys the
semaphore tower.
[16]
Undated
Publications
Births
2 January –
Anna Lee , actress (died 2004)
13 January –
Lotte Berk , dancer and dance teacher (died 2003)
16 January –
Tom Burns , sociologist (died 2001)
17 January –
Shaun Wylie , mathematician and World War II codebreaker (died 2009)
18 January –
George Unwin , World War II fighter ace (died 2006)
27 January –
Jack Lee , film director (died 2002)
30 January –
Percy Thrower , gardener and broadcaster (died 1988)
4 February –
Richard Seaman , motor racing driver (died 1939)
6 February –
Mary Leakey , anthropologist (died 1996)
10 February –
Douglas Slocombe , cinematographer (died 2016)
13 February –
George Barker , poet (died 1991)
15 February –
William Scott ,
Ulster Scots painter (died 1989)
17 February –
Frederick Higginson , fighter pilot (died 2003)
28 February –
Wally Ridley , record producer and songwriter (died 2007)
1 March –
R. S. R. Fitter , writer (died 2005)
9 March –
John Fancy , aviator (died 2008)
15 March
21 March –
George Abecassis , racing driver (died 1991)
22 March –
Cyril Edwin Hart , forestry expert (died 2009)
29 March
31 March –
Walter Winterbottom , footballer (died 2002)
3 April –
Peter Coke , actor (died 2008)
5 April –
Anne Scott-James , journalist (died 2009)
11 April –
Chrystabel Leighton-Porter , model (died 2000)
16 April
19 April –
Michael Wharton , humorist "Peter Simple" (died 2006)
24 April –
Lady Marguerite Tangye , debutante and actress (died 2002)
1 May –
Florence Bell , scientist (died 2000)
4 May –
Charles Rob , surgeon (died 2001)
8 May –
Sid James , South African-born comic actor (died 1976)
12 May –
Hugh Latimer , actor (died 2006)
18 May –
Jane Birdwood , politician (died 2000)
24 May –
James Flint , Royal Air Force officer, businessman (died 2013)
25 May –
Richard Dimbleby , journalist and broadcaster (died 1965)
26 May –
Peter Cushing , actor (died 1994)
27 May –
Linden Travers , actress (died 2001)
29 May –
Douglas Black , physician (died 2002)
31 May –
Graham Webster , archaeologist (died 2001)
1 June
2 June –
Barbara Pym , novelist (died 1980)
14 June –
Stanley Black , musician (died 2002)
15 June –
John Sinclair Morrison , classicist (died 2000)
25 June –
Cyril Fletcher , comedian (died 2005)
2 July –
Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton , businessman (died 2001)
3 July –
William Deakin , World War II soldier and historian (died 2005)
10 July –
Elizabeth Inglis , actress (died 2007)
18 July –
Nat Temple , band leader (died 2008)
21 July –
Catherine Storr , children's writer (died 2001)
23 July –
Michael Foot ,
Labour Party leader 1980–1983 (died 2010)
25 July –
John Cairncross , Scottish-born public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer (died 1995)
28 July
30 July –
Marjorie Williamson , educator (died 2002)
3 August –
Paul Bryan , politician (died 2004)
11 August –
Angus Wilson , novelist and short story writer (died 1991)
14 August –
Fred Davis , snooker and billiards player (died 1998)
16 August –
Monty Berman , cinematographer (died 2006)
30 August –
Richard Stone , economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
31 August –
Bernard Lovell , physicist and radio-astronomer (died 2012)
2 September –
Bill Shankly , football manager (died 1981)
4 September –
Victor Kiernan , Marxist historian (died 2009)
8 September –
Mary Hardwick , tennis player (died 2001)
23 September –
Andy Barr , Irish communist and trade unionist (died 2003)
29 September –
Trevor Howard , actor (died 1988)
2 October –
Vivian Ridler , printer and typographer (died 2009)
7 October –
Derek Lang , general (died 2001)
19 October –
Robert Yewdall Jennings , judge (died 2004)
22 October –
Tamara Desni , actress (born in Germany; died 2008)
23 October –
David Tabor , physicist (died 2005)
26 October
27 October –
Leonard Rosoman , artist (died 2012)
28 October –
Douglas Seale , English actor (died 1999)
[21]
5 November
8 November –
Frederick Gore , artist (died 2009)
11 November –
Ivy Benson , bandleader (died 1993)
12 November –
Kenneth Steer , archaeologist (died 2007)
13 November –
Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly , novelist (died 2001)
14 November –
Eve Gardiner , beautician and remedial make-up artist (born 1992)
[22]
21 November –
John and Roy Boulting , film directors and producers (died 1985 and 2001 respectively)
22 November –
Benjamin Britten , composer (died 1976)
26 November –
Sybil Marshall , writer (died 2005)
9 December –
Peter Smithers , Conservative politician (died 2006)
10 December –
Harry Locke , character actor (died 1987)
12 December –
Edward Lowbury , bacteriologist (died 2007)
13 December –
Arnold Brown , Salvation Army general (died 2002)
26 December –
Elizabeth David , née Gwynne, cookery writer (died 1992)
Deaths
23 January –
Frederick Holman , Olympic gold medal swimmer (born 1883; typhoid)
17 February –
Edward Stanley Gibbons ,
philatelist , founder of
Stanley Gibbons Ltd (born 1840)
25 March –
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley , field marshal (born 1833 in Ireland; died in France)
28 May –
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury , pre-historian and naturalist (born 1834)
30 May –
John Oldrid Scott , architect (born 1841)
2 June –
Alfred Austin ,
Poet Laureate (born 1835)
8 June –
Emily Davison , suffragette (born 1872)
28 September – Sir
Alfred East , painter (born 1844)
25 October –
Frederick Rolfe , writer and artist (born 1860)
6 November –
Sir William Henry Preece , electrical engineer and inventor (born 1834)
7 November –
Alfred Russel Wallace , evolutionary biologist (born 1823 in Monmouthshire)
26 November –
Frances Julia Wedgwood , feminist novelist, biographer and critic (born 1833)
See also
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ISBN
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^
a
b Cottrell, Peter (2009).
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ISBN
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^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 . Caterham: Marden. p. 22.
^ Crawford, Elizabeth (4 July 2013).
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^
"Montrose air station, the UK's first airfield, marks centenary" .
BBC News . 23 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ "Over 200 Lost in Storm".
The New York Times . 8 March 1913.
^
"British Steamer Lost" .
The Sydney Morning Herald . 10 March 1913. p. 9. Retrieved 19 January 2013 .
^
a
b
c
d Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 94.
ISBN
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^
a
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"BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour – Women's History Timeline: 1910 – 1919" .
Archived from the original on 6 January 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2007 .
^ Doward, Jamie (31 January 2016).
"Stranded whales provide new clues on the threats to sea creatures' survival" .
The Observer . London. pp. 20–21. Retrieved 1 February 2016 .
^
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^
"Highbury – A history" . Arsenal.com . Retrieved 19 October 2012 .
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^ Shaw, Phil (21 March 2016).
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Van Gelder, Lawrence (20 June 1999).
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