page_title: July 1913
section_title: July 2, 1913 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: July 1913 / July 2, 1913 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: French aviator Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais (1892-1916)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in July 1913:
context_section_description: Wall Street lobbyist David Lamar testified before a United States Senate subcommittee that he had frequently impersonated Congressmen during telephone conversations in order to gain an advantage. The United States Department of Justice reluctantly concluded that there was no federal law under which Lamar could be prosecuted. Although federal law made it a felony "to impersonate an officer of the United States", the Supreme Court of the United States had ruled that members of Congress were "not officers of the United States, but of the particular States from which they come.
  Upon recommendation of the city Board of Health, the city of Cincinnati seized control of eight ice plants whose workers had gone on strike during the hot summer.  The strike settled four days later.
  The Crocker Land Expedition, on the ship Diana, departed from New York City toward the North Pole for a three-year exploration project.
  French aviator Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais set a new distance record for an airplane, flying 3,100 miles from Paris to Saint Petersburg.
  The Catholic League was established to reconcile Protestant and Catholic faiths in England.
caption: Brindejonc des Moulinais
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