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1913 was a year of interest and excitement. Many new companies were founded, laws were passed, new inventions were made, and much more. Coco Chanel starts her boutique, the American Cancer Society was founded. Charlie Chaplin became popular, and a flood in Ohio killed over 350 people. Here are just some of the highlights of the year. 1913 was a year of many changes.

• The first American modern Art exhibit called the Armony Show took place from February to March. Featuring Picasso, Cézanne, Rodin, Seurat, Matisse, Van Gogh, and many other well-known artists.
• In March Ohio's Great Miami River Flood brings 10 inches of water, kills 351, injures hundreds more, and creates property damage amounting to $100 million.
• In April, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified. It provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
• In October United Mine Workers strike Colorado Fuel and Iron to protest policies of the company that was controlled by Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller. Two of the mines are set on fire and 27 strikers are killed.
• Mohandas Gandhi leads 2,500 Indians in protest into the Transvaal in defiance of a law. The group of Indians were arrested and Gandhi refused to pay the fine. He was put in jail because of that. Gandhi's supporters demonstrate on November 25, and the Natal police fired their guns into the crown. They ended up killing two people and injuring 20.
• On December 21, 1913, the first US crossword puzzle appears in the weekend supplement of the New York World. In the 19th century, an English-American journalist saw the same type of puzzles in English articles for children and in the London Graphic. They arranged squares in a diamond pattern with 31 clues that had simple word definitions.
• Charlie Chaplin signs a $150 per week contract with moviemaker Mack Sennett in New York on December 29.
• Quaker Oats Company introduces Quaker’s Puffed Rice and Quaker’s Puffed Wheat.
• Coco Chanel started a new boutique for women sportswear in Deauville, France that featured open-necked shirts in an age when women adores feathers and huge hats. She also made sweaters from rich knitwear and gains world fame.
• William Randolph Hearst purchases Harpers Bazaar (a famous magazine) and changes the name to Harper's Bazaar in 1929.
• Vitamin A was isolated.
• The latest dance craze is the Fox Trot.
• Henry Ford adopts the assembly line, which made cars more affordable for the average family.
• The American Cancer Society founded when nine out of ten cancer patients died from cancer. The percentage of life expectancy will decrease rapidly but the incidence of cancer will increase.
• The Drug and Pure Food law which Congress amended in 1906, makes it more effective.
• Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics won the World Series, defeating the New York Giants in 4 games to 1.
• United States first shuffleboard game is played on a hotel court in Daytona, Fla.

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