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| 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 | ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 2039 or 1658 or 886 — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 2040 or 1659 or 887 |
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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
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
- ↑ 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.