Timeline September 1913

Events in September 1913 11

• 1858 – 1913 Rudolf Diesel The engine, the fortune, and the ferry Rudolf Diesel was born in Paris to Bavarian parents, deported as an enemy alien at twelve, and educated in a language he had to learn on arrival. He set out to build an engine that would approach the theoretical limit of thermodynamic efficiency and give small workshops a machine to rival the great steam plants of industry. He succeeded, became a millionaire, spent years in court and in sanatoriums, lost almost everything, and walked off the deck of a Channel ferry in 1913. The engine now moves most of the freight on earth.
• 1913 Second Revolution Against Yuan Shikai Republican uprising fails to unseat China's president Sun Yat-sen and Nationalist allies launched an armed uprising against President Yuan Shikai after Yuan's suppression of the Kuomintang and the assassination of a parliamentary leader. The revolt was crushed within weeks, and Sun fled into exile in Japan. Yuan went on to dissolve parliament and consolidate near-dictatorial power.
• 1913 – 1983 Bear Bryant (1913-1983) Died 26 January 1983, aged 69 Paul "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach who led the University of Alabama to six national championships. At his retirement he held the record for most wins by a major college football coach. He remains one of the most influential figures in American college sports.
• 1913 – 2013 Eiji Toyoda (1913-2013) Died 17 September 2013, aged 100 Eiji Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist who led Toyota Motor Corporation through its expansion into a major global automaker and helped develop the Toyota Production System. He died at his home in Toyota City, Japan.
• 1913 – 1980 Jesse Owens (1913-1980) Died 31 March 1980, aged 66 American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, undermining Nazi claims of Aryan racial superiority. He set world records in sprinting and long jump and became a global symbol of athletic excellence over ideology. Owens died of lung cancer in Tucson, Arizona.
• 1913 – 1970 Frances Farmer (1913-1970) American actress of the 1930s whose troubled life became the subject of books and films.
• 1913 Frances Farmer born in Seattle Frances Farmer is born in Seattle.
• 1913 First Flight Across the Mediterranean Roland Garros flies non-stop from France to Tunisia French aviator Roland Garros flew a monoplane non-stop from Frejus in southern France to Bizerte in Tunisia, crossing about 780 kilometres of open sea. The flight took under eight hours and was the first crossing of the Mediterranean by air. It marked a major advance in the range of early aircraft.
• 1913 Disappearance from the Dresden Antwerp to Harwich, 29 September Diesel boards the mail steamer Dresden at Antwerp, bound for a meeting in London about diesel engines for British submarines. He dines, tells a companion he will see him in the morning, asks to be called at six, and goes to his cabin. In the morning the bed has not been slept in. His hat and coat are folded under the rail. In his diary, a cross is marked against the date.
• 1913 – 2001 Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) Died 19 February 2001, aged 87 Kramer was a producer and director known for message films on racism, nuclear war and the Holocaust, including The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Critics were divided on his earnestness, but his films reached wide audiences. He received the Irving G. Thalberg award.
• 1913 – 1988 Trevor Howard (1913-1988) Died 14 January 1988, aged 74 Trevor Howard was an English actor best known for his lead role in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. He appeared in dozens of British and international films over a four-decade career. He died in Bushey, England.