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 |
Gregorian calendar | 1913 MCMXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2666 |
Armenian calendar | 1362 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6663 |
Bahá'í calendar | 69–70 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1834–1835 |
Bengali calendar | 1320 |
Berber calendar | 2863 |
British Regnal year | 3 Geo. 5 – 4 Geo. 5 |
Buddhist calendar | 2457 |
Burmese calendar | 1275 |
Byzantine calendar | 7421–7422 |
Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4609 or 4549 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4610 or 4550 |
Coptic calendar | 1629–1630 |
Discordian calendar | 3079 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1905–1906 |
Hebrew calendar | 5673–5674 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1969–1970 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1834–1835 |
- Kali Yuga | 5013–5014 |
Holocene calendar | 11913 |
Igbo calendar | 913–914 |
Iranian calendar | 1291–1292 |
Islamic calendar | 1331–1332 |
Japanese calendar | Taishō 2 (大正2年) |
Javanese calendar | 1842–1843 |
Juche calendar | 2 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4246 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 2 民國2年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 445 |
Thai solar calendar | 2455–2456 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 2039 or 1658 or 886 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 2040 or 1659 or 887 |
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[change | change source]
- 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[change | change source]
January[change | change source]
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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[change | change source]
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- February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
March[change | change source]
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- March 18 - René Clément, French movie director (d. 1996)
- March 26 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
April[change | change source]
May[change | change source]
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June[change | change source]
July[change | change source]
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- July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
August[change | change source]
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- August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2022)
September[change | change source]
- September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (d. 2007)
October[change | change source]
November[change | change source]
- November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
December[change | change source]
Deaths[change | change source]
- 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[change | change source]
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- 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[change | change source]
- ↑ 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.