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1913 in the United States
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s
Years:	1910 1911 1912 – 1913 – 1914 1915 1916
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Events from the year 1913 in the United States.

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February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.
February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
February 17 – The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays the works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th Century.
March 4 – Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States.
March 4 – The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor.
March 4 – The first U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds is passed.
March 5–March 7 – First Battle of Bud Dajo: American troops decisively defeat Moro rebels in the Philippines.
March 7 – The British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbour.^[1]
March 13 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
March 25 – Great Dayton Flood: Two days of rain in the Miami Valley flood the region and mark the worst natural disaster in Ohio's recorded history. Dayton is especially devastated.

April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City.
April 26 – Mary Phagan is raped and strangled on the premises of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. Leo Frank is tried and convicted for the crime.
May – The Paul Emile Chabas painting September Morn creates a national sensation in the U.S., and results in a court case in Chicago, Illinois.
May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.
June – The first edition of the Christian esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross is published in the United States (it is still issued bimonthly today).
June 13 – A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley and passengers are buried under the contents of an overhead garbage chute, that breaks in Niagara Falls, New York.
June 15 – Bud Bagsak Massacre: U.S. troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 civilians in Bud Bagsak, the Philippines.

July 3 – The 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of American Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
July 10 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004^[update]).
September 19 – Francis Ouimet wins the U.S. Open by 5 strokes, becoming the first amateur to ever win the event.

October 3 – The United States Revenue Act of 1913 re-imposes the federal income tax and lowers basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%.
October 10 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.
November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
November 26 – Phi Sigma Sigma, the first non-sectarian sorority, is founded at Hunter College in New York.
December 1 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production).
December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
December 23 – The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow Wilson.

The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
The cities of Winston, North Carolina and Salem, North Carolina officially merge to become Winston-Salem.
Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913) ends.
25,000 people die in industrial accidents in the US.
The National Temperance Council is founded to promote the temperance movement.