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1913Press

  1. The world’s tallest building: “The Woolworth Building. State of the art in 1913, state of the future in 2000.”
  2. Conversation by underground cable, 455 miles—Boston to D.C.
  3. American popular social dance Ballin’ the Jack
  4. Vivian Fine is born
  5. Muhammad bin Abubakar publishes the epic poem Utendi wa Liiyongo Fumo of the southeastern African oral tradition
  6. Birth of Robert Hayden
  7. Conversation by overhead line, 2,600 miles—New York to Salt Lake City
  8. H.D. and Richard Aldington marry at Kensington
  9. Habibullah establishes the first state hospital in Afghanistan, in Kabul.
  10. W.E.B. DuBois describes L.A. as a “wonderful place.”
  11. British National Health Insurance begins dispensing health care
  12. Petals on a wet, black bough.
  13. Katherine Stinson becomes the first woman to fly the mail
  14. The rusty 3-inch metal loop "evokes a cumbersome, oversized engagement ring with an ominous-looking, baublelike appendage."
  15. In Greenwich Village, en route to marry the Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa The Baroness finds her object: “Enduring Ornament"
  16. Peppermint Life Savers
  17. The Oreo cookie
  18. Campbell’s Cream of Celery soup
  19. Emma Goldman speaks on: “The Sham of Culture” “The Misconceptions of Free Love” “The Psychology of Anarchism”
  20. The “Black Fives” St Christopher Club introduces “scientific basketball” & novel marketing, leading the team to its 1st World Championship.