page_title: June 1913
section_title: June 21, 1913 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1913 / June 21, 1913 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles E. Nash, MC. Library of Congress description: "Hon. Charles Edmund Nash of LA. Private in 82nd Reg't U.S. Vol. U.S.A. - lost leg at Fort Blakely" (Digitally restored image) NOTE: This image is a WP digital restoration of the original at the Library of Congress. Charles Edmund Nash (1844 - 1913), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, May 23, 1844; attended the common schools; was a bricklayer by trade; during the Civil War enlisted in 1863 as a private in the Eighty-second Regiment, United States Volunteers, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant major; appointed night inspector of customs in 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; postmaster at Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, from February 15, 1882, until May 1, 1882; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 21, 1913; interment in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1913:
context_section_description: Carl Theodor Zahle, who previously had served as Prime Minister of Denmark, formed a new cabinet to succeed Klaus Berntsen.
  Georgia Thompson "Tiny" Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, jumping from a plane piloted by aviator Glenn L. Martin over Los Angeles. Broadwick had volunteered to test Martin's invention of a "trap seat" that would allow people to bail out of an airplane more quickly.
  "First Lady of Texas" Ima Hogg established the Houston Symphony orchestra.
  Born: Jim Cavanagh, Australian politician, Senator for South Australia from 1962 to 1981, cabinet minister of the Gough Whitlam administration, near Adelaide (d. 1990); Luis Taruc, Filipino resistance leader, leader of the communist guerrilla group Hukbalahap, in San Luis, Pampanga, Philippines  (d. 2005); Kid Azteca, Mexican boxer, member of boxers with more than 50 wins achieved by knockout, in Mexico City (d. 2002)
  Died: Charles E. Nash, American politician, U.S. Representative for Louisiana from 1875 to 1877 during the Reconstruction era and first African-American to sit in the United States Congress from that state (b. 1844)
caption: Charles E. Nash, U.S. Congressman
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