Editing 1913 (section)

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1913}}
[[Image:A-line1913 edit.jpg|thumb|225px|right|Nearly-completed Ford Model Ts at the Highland Park Plant]]
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Pancho Villa]]'s troops take [[Torreón]] after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
* [[October 7]]–[[December 1]] &ndash; The [[Ford Motor Company]] adopts a moving [[assembly line]] for [[chassis]] production of the [[Model T]] at its [[Highland Park Plant]] in [[Highland Park, Michigan]] ([[Detroit]]), reducing assembly time from 12½ hours to 2 hours 40 minutes, a landmark in [[mass production]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature|title=Ford's Assembly Line Turns 100: How It Really Put the World on Wheels|first=Tony|last=Swan|journal=[[Car and Driver]]|date=April 2013|access-date=2017-03-26|archive-date=2017-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419222733/http://www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moving-assembly-line-at-ford|title=October 7 1913: Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory|publisher=[[History (U.S. TV channel)|The History Channel]]|work=This Day in History|date=March 4, 2010 |access-date=2025-02-15|archive-date=2016-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915141050/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moving-assembly-line-at-ford|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=December 1 1913: Ford's assembly line starts rolling|work=This Day in History|date=November 13, 2009 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling|publisher=The History Channel|access-date=2025-02-15}}</ref> Between 1912 and 1914 the retail price of a Model T drops by US$150.
* [[October 9]] &ndash; Canadian-owned ocean liner {{SS|Volturno|1906}}, carrying passengers (mostly immigrants) and a chemical cargo from [[Rotterdam]] to New York City, catches fire in a North Atlantic gale; 136 die, but 521 are saved by ships summoned by [[SOS]] messages to the scene.
* [[October 10]]
** U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the [[Panama Canal]].
** [[Yuan Shikai]] is elected [[President of the Republic of China]].<ref>  Hill, Joshua. “Warlord Democracy: Coercion and Coordination, 1913–1921.” Voting As a Rite, 1st ed., vol. 417, Harvard University Asia Center, 2019, pp. 137-, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs90d2.10</nowiki>.</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The [[Philadelphia Athletics]] win the deciding game of the [[1913 World Series]], over baseball's [[New York Giants_(baseball)|New York Giants]], winning 3–1 to take the series in five games.
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Senghenydd colliery disaster]]: An explosion at the [[Universal Colliery]], Senghenydd in [[South Wales]] kills 439 miners, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]]'s {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}} is launched at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]] as the first oil-fired [[battleship]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Richard|last=Crowhurst|title=A History of Firsts: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard|url=http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/museums/portsmouth.shtml|work=TimeTravel-Britain.com|year=2005|access-date=2010-09-09|archive-date=July 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706130633/http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/museums/portsmouth.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Image:Völkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig.JPG|thumb|115px|right|Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig]]
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The [[Monument to the Battle of the Nations]] at [[Leipzig]], Germany is finished.
* [[October 19]] &ndash; The [[DLRG]] (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Victoriano Huerta]] elected president of Mexico.
* [[October 28]]&ndash;[[December 2]] &ndash; [[Zabern Affair]]: Acts of aggression by the [[Prussia]]n garrison at [[Zabern]], [[Alsace-Lorraine]] provoke political debate across the [[German Empire]].
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The [[Lincoln Highway]], the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.