1913. The Year Before the Storm
A calendar inspired by the book «1913. The Year Before the Storm» by Florian Illies. Find out what happened during every month of the busy year 1913.
January. The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.
February. The first Coco Chanel boutique is growing in the large city of Deauville.
March. Virginia Woolf writes her first novel, The Voyage Out.
April. Adolf Hitler gets rejected from the Academy of Arts.
May. Russian composer Stravinsky meets his future mistress Coco Chanel. In the course of their romance, Coco creates her famous fragrance CHANEL No. 5.
June. Kafka proposes to Felicia, hurrying to send the letter with the earliest train.
July. The highest temperature on Earth, 48.8 C, is recorded in Death Valley (California).
August. Henry Ford uses the assembly line for the first time in production history.
September. Charlie Chaplin signs his first contract.
October. August Macke, the painter, moves to Switzerland with his wife and children, where an extremely fruitful period of his creative life begins.
November. Burt Lancaster, film noir star, and Vivien Leigh, starring in Gone with the Wind, are born.
December. The Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre. Malevich is finishing the Black Square.
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