What is 1913?
{{Year nav|1913}} {{Year in various calendars|1913}} '''1913''' ([[Roman numerals|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 Balkan War|First]] and [[Second Balkan War]]s * [[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 {{convert|56.7|C|F|disp=flip}} 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.<ref>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. </ref> Nineteen [[ship]]s 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 === [[File:Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Richard Nixon]]]] [[File:Gustáv Husák - oříznuto.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Gustáv Husák]]]] * [[January 9]] – [[Richard Nixon]], 37th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1994]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Gustáv Husák]], [[List of presidents of Czechoslovakia|First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]] (d. [[1991]]) === February === [[File:Rosaparks 4-5 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rosa Parks]]]] * [[February 4]] – [[Rosa Parks]], American civil