1913
President Wilson refuses to appoint a National Race Commission to study the social and economic status of blacks, rejecting a proposal sponsored by Oswald Garrison Villard. The President also appoints white foreign service officers to Haiti and Santo Domingo, among the few consular posts open to blacks by custom and practice.
1913
Kaiser Wilhelm II and H.S. Chamberlain plot to steal the Helige Lanz (Holy Lance) from Austria at a Germanic art exposition in Berlin. General Helmuth von Moltke foils their plan by alerting the Austrians.
1913
Walter Riehl and Rudolf Jung draft a new program for the Austrian German Worker's party (DAP) at Iglau. (Forgotten Nazis)
1913
Drew Ali, a black leader, founds a Moorish Science Temple in
Newark, N.J., and establishes a religious tradition that will lead to the
founding of the Black Muslims and other Islamic groups in the U.S.
1913
Rudolf Glauer, now calling himself Rudolf von Sebottendorff,
moves to Berlin, claiming to have been adopted by Baron Heinrich von
Sebottendorff in Turkey in 1911. The Baron's family in Germany recognizes the
adoption and seems genuinely fond of him. (Roots)
1913
"Unionist" gunrunners cause bloodshed at Londonderry
in Ireland.
1913
Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913
Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the Czarist government. He will not return to Russia until 1917.
1913
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels in Ostara I, #69, interprets
the holy grail as an electrical symbol pertaining to the "panpsychic"
powers of the pure-blooded "Aryan" race. The quest of the "Templeisen" (Templars) for the grail was a metaphor, Lanz said, for the strict eugenic
practices of the Templar Knights designed to breed god-men. (Roots)
1913
Dr. Eugen Fischer's book Die Rehobother Bastards und das
Bastardisierungsproblem beim Menschen (The Bastards of Rehoboth and the
problem of miscegenation in Man) is published. In it he writes about the
people of mixed blood in German South-West Africa: "We should provide them
with the minimum amount of protection which they require, for survival as a race
inferior to ourselves, and we should do this only as long as they are useful to
us. After this, free competition should prevail and, in my opinion, this will
lead to their decline and destruction." (Science)
1913
Antonius von der Linden begins publishing Geheime
Weissenschaften (Secret Science, 1913-1920) consisting of reprints
of esoteric texts from the Renaissance scholar Agrippa von Nettesheim. (Roots)
1913
Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at
Lambarene in Africa.
1913
Sigmund Livingstone among others forms the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), and a civil-rights statute is enacted in New York at the request
of several other Jewish organizations.
1913
American Charles Callahan publishes Washington: The Man and
the Mason. It contain a letter wriiten by George Washington in 1798 to
Reverend G.W. Snyder, acknowledging Washington's belief in the existence of the
Illuminati and the revolutionary principles of Jacobinism in the United States. It is "too evident to be questioned," Washington writes. (View document)
1913
Mexican President Francisco Madero is killed in a military coup
led by Victoriano Huerta.
1913
Rosa Luxemburg publishes her chief work, Accumulation of
Capital (English translation, 1951), presenting her theory of imperialism.
1913
Adolf Hitler establishes contact with certain proto-Nazi
circles in Munich, even before World War I. (Mein Kampf)
1913 January
A Germanenorden lodge is established at Duisburg with 30 brothers. Lodges in Nuremberg and Munich are established later in the year, but are not as successful as those in Northern and Eastern Germany.
(Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots)
1913 February 3
Wyoming approves the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, becoming the last of the 36 states needed to authorize a federal
income tax.
1913 February 14
Philipp Stauff is involved in a series of spiritualist seances which claim to communicate with the long-dead priest-kings of the old religion. Guido von List later writes about these seances in depth. (Roots)
1913 February 25
The 16th Amendment becomes law in the United
States. Earlier, the Supreme Court had found that an income tax whose monies are
not reapportioned to the states is unconstitutional. The 16th amendment provides
the necessary legal basis for a graduated federal income tax. (Schlesinger I)
1913 March
King George I of Greece is assassinated and is succeeded
by his son, Constantine I.
1913 March 3
A parade held for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. becomes a near riot when the crowd attacks the marchers, and police do not intervene.
1913 March 4
Woodrow Wilson takes his oath of office as 28th
President of the United States. Marshall becomes Vice President.
1913 March 31
J.P. Morgan dies in Rome, Italy. His son, J.P. (Jack)
Morgan, Jr., takes over operation of his various business enterprises.
