Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Day Your Maternal Grandmother Was Born

From Randy over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

(1)  What happened in the world on the day your maternal grandmother was born?  Tell us the date, the place, and find a newspaper page for that date, ideally from the place she was born.  What are some of the headlines?  What was the weather?

(2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  

Here's mine:

My maternal grandmother was Ethel Irene Ranney (1913-1973).  She was born on Sunday, July 6, 1913, in Elsie, Clinton County, Michigan, to Luther Boardman Ranney and Bessie Alice Carter Ranney.  She was the youngest of three children.  

During the year she was born, the President is Woodrow Wilson, The National Temperance Council is founded to promote the temperance movement, and R. J. Reynolds introduces Camel, the first packaged cigarette.

The closest newspaper I could locate to Elsie was the Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan.  Here is the front page on July 6, 1913:

The major front page articles were:

*  Tour Balloons Land in Michigan After Race From Missouri

*  Veterans From Michigan Begin Journey Home

*  Fiance of Jessie Wilson

*  Tornado Hits Wyandotte Hard

1913 marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) of the Civil War.  The June 19-July 4 gathering of 53,407 (of which about 8,750 were Confederate) veterans was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion.  Veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended.  

The engagement of Mr. Francis B. Sayre and Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson (2nd daughter of the president) was announced.

The Weather was reported on page 8:  Lower Michigan - Generally fair Sunday and Monday, Light to medium northwest to north winds.  Due to the quality of the scanned page, I was unable to make out the forecasted temperatures for Elsie.