1913

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

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

August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2022)

↑ 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.

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