page_title: April 1913
section_title: April 21, 1913 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1913 / April 21, 1913 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Quo Vadis was a 1912 Italian silent film. This is a publicity shot from a newspaper.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1913:
context_section_description: Mario García Menocal was certified as the new President of Cuba.
  The 900 foot long Cunard luxury ocean liner RMS Aquitania, the largest British liner built up to that time, was launched on the River Clyde in Scotland before a crowd of 100,000 people
  The Bretagne was launched by Arsenal de Lorient as the second of three battleships in her class to serve in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I. She would also serve in World War II before being sunk by enemy fire in 1940.
  Three members of the France's infamous Bonnot Gang, Raymond Callemin, André Soudy and Élie Monier, were executed by guillotine at 4:30 a.m. All three were beheaded within 40 seconds of each other.
  Quo Vadis? became the first motion picture to be shown in a Broadway theater, normally reserved for plays, and attracted thousands of spectators at a time, all willing to pay one dollar to watch a two-hour feature film.
  Born: Richard Beeching, British engineer, designer of the modern railway system in Great Britain. in Sheerness, England (d. 1985)
caption: A scene from Quo Vadis
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