1913 Facts for Kids

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 was a year that started on a Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 13th year of the 20th Century. Many important things happened around the world during this year.

Big Events of 1913
People Born in 1913
People Who Died in 1913
Nobel Prizes of 1913
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Big Events of 1913

The Balkan Wars continued, which were conflicts in Southeast Europe.
The Mexican Revolution was also happening, changing Mexico's history.
March 4: Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States. He took over from William Howard Taft.
March 12: Building started for Canberra, which would become the new capital city of Australia.
May 29: A famous ballet called The Rite of Spring was performed for the first time in Paris, France.
July 10: A very hot temperature of 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) was recorded in Death Valley, California. This is one of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth.
October 14: A terrible mining accident happened in Senghenydd, Wales. This disaster killed 439 people and was the worst mining tragedy in the United Kingdom's history.
November 7 to November 11: A huge storm, known as the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, hit the Great Lakes. It caused over 250 deaths and 19 ships were lost.
December 12: The famous painting, the Mona Lisa, was found in Florence, Italy. It had been stolen two years earlier.
The popular comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman started appearing in American newspapers.

People Born in 1913

January 9: Richard Nixon, who later became the 37th President of the United States.
February 4: Rosa Parks, an important civil rights activist in America. She fought for equal rights.
July 14: Gerald Ford, who became the 38th President of the United States.
September 23: Carl-Henning Pedersen, a famous Danish artist.
November 7: Albert Camus, a well-known French writer.

People Who Died in 1913

March 10: Harriet Tubman, an American activist who fought against slavery. She helped many enslaved people escape to freedom.
March 31: J. P. Morgan, a very powerful American businessperson in banking.
September 30: Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer who invented the Diesel engine.

Nobel Prizes of 1913

Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel Prize is a very important award given to people who have done amazing things in different fields. In 1913, these people won:

Medicine: Charles Robert Richet from France, for his work on how the body reacts to certain things.
Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes from the Netherlands, for his discoveries about how materials act at very low temperatures.
Chemistry: Alfred Werner from Switzerland, for his work on how atoms are arranged in molecules.
Literature: Rabindranath Tagore from India, for his beautiful poems and writings.
Peace: Henri La Fontaine from Belgium, for his work promoting peace around the world.