1913

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918

Births

February 11 - Lucio Diestro, composer.
June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
July 14 - Gerald Ford, American president.
November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor
November 7 - Albert Camus, writer
Vince Lombardi - American football coach

Deaths

Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist

Events

The Seventeenth Amendment - the direct election of senators - becomes law
de Sitter: speed of light is independent of speed of source
Sagnac: speed of light depends on speed of rotating platform
Change of US presidency from William Howard Taft (1909-1913) to Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

Nobel Prizes

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