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The following events occurred in September 1913: ==September 1, 1913 (Monday)== *French aviator Adolphe Pégoud demonstrated that he could fly upside an airplane upside-down on a sustained flight, traveling for 400 meters. He was using a specially constructed Bleriot monoplane, and after reaching 3,000 feet, put the plane in a quarter-loop and kept it in the upside down position.〔"Flies Upside Down a Quarter of a Mile", ''New York Times'', September 2, 1913〕 Pégoud, who would fly a full vertical loop on September 21, also did a "vertical-S" trick, which was reported in the press as having "looped the loop".〔"European Correspondence", in ''Flying'' magazine (August 1992) pp48-50〕〔"Aviator Loops Loop With Aeroplane 1500 Feet Up", ''Reno (NV) Evening Gazette'', September 1, 1913, p1〕 *The anti-government rebellion in southern China was brought to an end, when all six rebellious provinces surrendered to the Beiyang Army, led by General Zhang Xun, retook Nanjing.〔"Second Revolution (1913)", in ''Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949)'', James Z. Gao, ed. (Scarecrow Press, 2009) p308〕 *George Bernard Shaw's satirical play, ''Androcles and the Lion'', was performed for the first time.〔"Androcles and the Lion" in ''Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire'', Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ed. (Infobase Publishing, 2010) p12〕 *Born: Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist, in Vienna (d. 1979); and Woody Stephens, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer, in Stanton, Kentucky (d. 1998) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「September 1913 (month)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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