Here are 5 news stories from around the world 100 years ago.

What was happening in the world one hundred years ago? Hi this is Matt and here are 5 New York Times headlines from April 3rd, 1913.

Number 5. Alexander Graham Bell scoffed at the 72-hour time allotment in Lord Northcliffe’s transatlantic flight contest. He said increased endurance among existing machines “will make the flight possible in a single day.” We have come a long way since then. Before its 2003 retirement, the Concorde regularly made the flight in about three and a half hours.

Number 4. Thomas Edison’s son Theodore exploded an experiment in the inventor’s lab. The young teenager was working on creating a floating bomb. While that didn’t work out, Theodore did go on to take over his father’s lab and continue his research.

Number 3. If there had been soccer moms in 1913 they probably would have drooled over motor company Chalmers’ advertisement for a luxury 7-passenger vehicle.

Number 2. Looting ensued after two railcars collided and their payloads scattered across the area. The goods not burned in the crash were later taken by a mob of 50 pistol toting ruffians.

Number 1. Whether you call them a chauffeur or a cabbie, being a hired driver is a risky job. The Times reported a chauffeur was found murdered in upstate New York shortly after accepting a fare to a nearby town.