1913
year
1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and a common year starting on a Tuesday in the 13-day slower Julian calendar. It was the 913th year of the 2nd Millennium, 13th year of the 20th Century and the 4th year of the 1910s decade.
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 |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
References
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