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1913
The 20th Century Almanac · The 1910s

1913

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Henry Ford's moving assembly line revolutionized manufacturing, and the U.S. ratified the Sixteenth Amendment, creating a federal income tax. The Federal Reserve System was established, the Second Balkan War redrew the map, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring provoked a riot in Paris.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Tagore
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1913

Champions

US OpenWinner: Francis Ouimet Score: 304 Course: CC of Buffalo Location: Buffalo World Series Champions: Philadelphia A's vs. NY Giants Series: 4-1

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
WERNER, ALFRED, Switzerland, Zurich University, b. 1866 (in Mulhouse, Alsace, then Germany), d. 1919: "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up
Literature
TAGORE, RABINDRANATH, India, b. 1861, d. 1941: "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of
Peace
Bureau, Berne
Physiology or Medicine
RICHET, CHARLES ROBERT, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, b. 1850, d. 1935: "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis"
Physics
KAMERLINGH-ONNES, HEIKE, the Netherlands, Leyden University b. 1853, d. 1926: "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia to the production of liquid helium" (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogl