Editing 1913 (section)

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1913}}
* [[December 1]]
** [[Crete]], having obtained [[self rule]] from [[Ottoman Empire|Turkey]] after the [[First Balkan War]], is annexed by [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]].
**[[Buenos Aires Underground]], the first in South America, opens.
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo Peruggia]] tries to sell the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' in [[Florence]], and is arrested.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; The [[Raker Act]] is signed by President [[Woodrow Wilson]], allowing the City of [[San Francisco]] to dam [[Hetch Hetchy]] Valley in [[Yosemite National Park]].
* [[December 23]] &ndash; The [[Federal Reserve System]] is created as the [[central bank]]ing system of the United States, by [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s signature of the [[Federal Reserve Act]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Italian Hall disaster]]: seventy-three people – mostly striking mine workers and their families – are crushed to death in a stampede in [[Calumet, Michigan]].
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] returns the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' to [[French Third Republic|France]].