page_title: October 1913
section_title: October 8, 1913 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1913 / October 8, 1913 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Team photo of the Port Adelaide 1913 premiers.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1913:
context_section_description: The champions of the two major leagues of Australian rules football met to decide the national championship.  The Port Adelaide Magpies (of the South Australian Football League) hosted the Fitzroy Lions of the Victorian Football League. Port Adelaide, with 13 six-point goals, and 16 one-point behinds, won 94-31 over Fitzroy (which had scored 4 goals 7 behinds).
  The University of South Wales was founded as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, located at Treforest in South Wales in the United Kingdom, with a class of 17 students. In 1949, it would become Glamorgan Technical College, and, in 1975, Polytechnic of Wales, before becoming the University of Glamorgan in 1992. On April 11, 2013, the University of Wales, Newport would be merged with the University of Glamorgan to create USW, located at the Treforest campus.
  Portions of the comic opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi by composer Modest Mussorgsky premiered in Moscow, decades after his death, under the direction of Konstantin Saradzhev. A completed version would premiere in Saint Petersburg in 1917.
  Born: Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, the first person to be born on the island of South Georgia, and at the time, the person born closest to the South Pole; in Grytviken (d. 1996); Marios Makrionitis, Greek clery, Archbishop of Athens from 1953 to 1959, in Vari, Greece (d. 1959)
caption: Australian championship winner Port Adelaide
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