1913
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1910 1911 1912 – 1913 – 1914 1915 1916 |
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1913 (MCMXIII)
was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1913, the Gregorian calendar was
13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
- First and Second Balkan Wars
- Mexican Revolution
- March 4 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States, succeeding William Howard Taft.
- March 12 - Building work begins on the new capital city of Canberra in Australia.
- May 29 - Rite of Spring performance in Paris.
- July 10 - A temperature of 134.1 °F (56.7 °C) is recorded in Death Valley, California.
- October 14 - The Senghenydd colliery disaster in Wales kills 439 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest mining tragedy.
- November 7 to November 11 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250 people.[1] Nineteen ships are lost.
- December 12 - The Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence.
- George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat is launched in American newspapers
Births
January
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- January 9 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Gustáv Husák, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
February
- February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
March
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- March 18 - René Clément, French movie director (d. 1996)
- March 26 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
April
May
June
July
- July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
August
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- August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2022)
September
- September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (d. 2007)
October
November
- November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
December
Deaths
- March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist (b. 1820)
- March 31 – J.P. Morgan, American businessperson (banking) (b. 1837)
- April 15 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886)
- September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (b. 1858)
Nobel Prizes
- Physiology or Medicine - Charles Robert Richet (French physiologist)
- Physics - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Netherlands)
- Chemistry - Alfred Werner (Switzerland)
- Literature - Rabindranath Tagore (India, then-British India)
- Peace - Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)
1913 Media
May 29: The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
The Balkan boundaries after 1913
Nearly-completed Ford Model Ts at the Highland Park Plant
Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig
Edward Gierek
A promotional shot of Loretta Young
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Publicity photo of Lloyd Bridges.
References
- ↑ Additional victims of storm include the three victims from the freighter William Nottingham, who volunteered to leave the ship on a lifeboat in search of assistance. While the boat was being lowered into the water, a breaking wave smashed it into the side of the ship. The men disappeared into the near-freezing waters below.