Video: 'Bob McGrath sings Joyce Kilmer's "Trees"'

(Friday, August 1, 1913) — The Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” was first published today in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

(Tuesday, July 15, 1913) — Augustus Bacon, a Democrat from Georgia, became the first person elected to the U.S. Senate today under the terms of the recently ratified 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for popular election of senators.

Video: 'Why is Death Valley so Hot?'

(Thursday, July 10, 1913) — The highest recorded shade temperature was measured today at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, at 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius). During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129 °F (54 °C) or above.

Video: 'The Great War episode 1 Exposion' (June 4, 1913, at 18:43)

(Wednesday, June 4, 1913) — British suffragist Emily Davison was struck and mortally injured today after moving into the path of a horse owned by King George V during the running of the Epsom Derby. Jockey Herbert Jones was thrown off and injured. Anmer recovered and completed the race on its own, but Davison, whose exact motives remain unclear, died at a hospital four days later.

Video: 'Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (Gergiev/ Tolmachev)'

(Thursday, May 29, 1913) — The ballet “Le Sacre du printemps” (The Rite of Spring), with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, had its chaotic world premiere today at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Video: 'Gideon Sundback'

(Tuesday, April 29, 1913) — Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, N.J., received a U.S. patent for a “separable fastener” — later known as the zipper.

Video: 'New York Documentary'

(Thursday, April 24, 1913, 7:29 p.m. local time) — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, from the White House in Washington tonight, gave the signal for the formal opening of the new 57-story Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, the tallest structure in the world (at that time) with the exception of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Continue reading President Wilson formally opens Woolworth Building, world’s tallest, 100 years ago this hour (1913) →

Video: 'Ebbets Field'

(Wednesday, April 9, 1913) — The first game was played today at Ebbets Field, the newly built home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.