page_title: July 1913
section_title: July 15, 1913 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: July 1913 / July 15, 1913 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: H.H. Asquith, former Prime Minister of the UK.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in July 1913:
context_section_description: As expected, Great Britain's House of Lords voted against approval of the Irish Home Rule bill, for the second time, by a majority of 238. Prime Minister H. H. Asquith announced that his government would present a plan for abolition of the House of Lords at the next session of Parliament. The bill would finally become law on September 18, 1914, after passing under the terms of the Parliament Act on May 25 of that year.
  Stoyan Danev resigned as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
  Augustus Octavius Bacon was re-elected U.S. senator in the first election under the 17th Amendment but would pass away while serving his term in 1914.
  Born: Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas, American country singer, known for country hits "Signed Sealed and Delivered" and "Candy Kisses" in Blue Creek, Ohio (d. 1963, killed in plane crash with Patsy Cline); Abraham Sutzkever, Russian Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor, known for poetry collections including Lider (Songs) and Lider fun geto (Songs from the ghetto), in Smarhon’, Belarus, Russian Empire (d. 2010)
caption: H.H. Asquith
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