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1913
 
     
Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past        
1913
 
    
Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president       
1913
 
    
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence       
1913
 
    
A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra       
1913
 
    
The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford       
1913
 
   
An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America      
1913
 
    
The New York World publishes the first crossword puzzle, devised by English-born journalist Arthur Wynne       
1913
 
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The Rugby Football Union acquires an additional 1.6 acres of land for Twickenham Rugby ground See in Google maps   
1913
 
    
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers       
1913
 
     
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker        
Edwin Lutyens, by Robert Lutyens, 1959
National Portrait Gallery, London

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