Video: '2013 Helen Hayes Tribute to Actors' Equity Association'
(Monday, May 26, 1913) — The Actors’ Equity Association, a labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, was organized today by a group of actors at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel in New York. The union’s first president was Francis Wilson.
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.
Video: 'The Women's Suffrage Procession of 1913'
(Monday, March 3, 1913) — More than 5,000 suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., today, a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.
Video: 'Rosa Parks - Mini Bio'
(Tuesday, February 4, 1913) — Rosa Parks, a black woman whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man touched off the modern civil rights movement in America, was born Rosa Louise McCauley today in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Video: 'Lady Bird Waltz'
(Thursday, December 22, 1912) — Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (who served from 1963 to 1969), was born Claudia Alta Taylor today in Karnack, Texas, a town in Harrison County, near the state’s border with Louisiana.
Video: 'Piltdown Man Hoax on Discovery Science'
(Wednesday, December 18, 1912) — The Piltdown Man made its public debut today as fossil collector Charles Dawson reported to the Geological Society of London his discovery of supposedly fragmented early human remains at a gravel pit in Piltdown, East Sussex, England.
More than four decades later, the Piltdown Man was exposed as a hoax.
Video: 'Fenway 1912! Author Glenn Stout @ Red Sox, Fenway Park 100 '
(Wednesday, October 16, 1912) — The Boston Red Sox won the 1912 World Series today, beating the New York Giants 3-2 in 10 innings at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, in the eighth and deciding game. It was the first time the Red Sox won the World Series.
Video: 'In Nacht und Eis'
(Saturday, August 17, 1912) — The second movie inspired by the Titanic disaster, a German production titled In Nacht und Eis (In Night and Ice), was released today.
