Timeline October 1913

Events in October 1913 4

• 1913 The moving assembly line Ninety-three minutes per chassis Ford starts the moving chassis line at Highland Park. Assembly time for a Model T falls from over twelve hours to around ninety minutes. The engine made mass mobility possible — the assembly line made it affordable. It also makes the work so monotonous that Ford has to double wages to five dollars a day to keep anyone on the line.
• 1913 Panama Canal Waters Joined Gamboa Dike removed, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Engineers detonated the Gamboa Dike, the last barrier separating the Panama Canal's excavated channel from the Chagres River. The explosion allowed water to flow through the full length of the canal for the first time. Regular ship traffic through the completed canal began the following year.
• 1913 The bag, and the body Two hundred thousand marks and empty accounts Martha Diesel opens the bag her husband gave her before leaving, with instructions not to open it for a week. It contains two hundred thousand marks in cash and bank statements showing the family is effectively broke. On 10 October a Dutch crew recovers a body from the North Sea and removes the personal effects — a pill case, a spectacle case, a pocket knife — which his son identifies. The verdict is suicide. The theories that he was pushed, by German naval interests or by oil, have never gone away.
• 1913 – 1991 Klaus Barbie (1913-1991) Died 25 September 1991, aged 77 Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his role in torturing and deporting French Resistance members and Jews during World War II, died in a French prison. He had been convicted of crimes against humanity in 1987 after years evading justice in South America. His trial was a landmark moment in France's reckoning with wartime collaboration.