1913 facts for kids

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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

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.

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Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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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. 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 9 – Richard Nixon, American politician, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
July 14 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (d. 2007)
November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan Pakistani social activist and early political leader (d. 2007)

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

Rabindranath Tagore in 1909

Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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)

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See also

In Spanish: 1913 para niños

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