Year 1784
East India Company was appointed as the centralised Regulatory Authority through India by Pitt's India Act, which was accepted in British Parliament in England.
AUGUST 13
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13 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 13 August.
Observances & Special Days
International Lefthanders Day (International)
Year 1898
Carl Gustave Vit discovered 433 Eros Asteroid near Earth.
Year 1913
First production of Stainless Steel in the United Kingdom by Harry Brearly.
Year 1928
Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
Year 1943
Chintamanrao Deshmukh was the first Indian to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank.
Year 1951
First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
Year 1953
Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc.
Year 1954
Radio Pakistan broadcasted the ‘Qaumi Tarana’, the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
Year 1954
Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.
Year 1956
National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India.
Year 1960
Central African Republic declared its independence from France.
Year 1960
Marmik' weekly magzine published.
Year 1961
Wall of Berlin started building.
Year 1990
A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwan's naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
Year 1997
Supreme Court lays down guidelines and norms for the effective enforcement of the basic human right of gender equality and guarantee against sexual harassment at work places.
Year 1997
The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
Year 1998
India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million.
Year 2000
The Government announces the opening up of the national long distance communication segment with no restriction on the number of players.
Year 2004
One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Year 2008
Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
Year 2015
At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
Born 1638
Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa.
Born 1848
Ramesh Chander Dutt. He was a historian, economist, writer, translator, civil servant, and politician from India.
Born 1888
John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer who invented Television.
Born 1890
Tryambak Bapuji Thombre, an Indian Marathi poet.
Born 1898
Acharya Atre, Indian writer, politician, editor, film producer, and poet.
Born 1899
Alfred Hitchcock, British Filmmaker. English director who moved to Hollywood and directed such classics as Psycho and The Birds.
Born 1911
Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born.
Born 1913
Khawtin Khuma, politician, was born at Phuldungsei, Tripura.
Born 1926
Fidel Alexandro Castro (American Spanish) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician. He governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then President from 1976 to 2008.
Born 1936
Vyjayanti mala Bali, Indian actress, and Politician.
Born 1945
Robin Jackman, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster
Born 1963
Shridevi, Indian actress. She was known as the female superstar of Indian cinema.
Born 1975
Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer.
Born 1983
Sandip Chandra, 9th Grandmaster.
Died 1795
Ahilyabai Holkar, the hereditary noble Sardar of the Maratha Empire, India. She passed away at the age of 70.
Died 1826
Rene Laennec, French physician. The inventor of the Stethoscope.
Died 1910
Nurse Florence Nightingale, ‘the Lady with the Lamp’. During the Crimean war, she transformed the appalling conditions in military hospitals and founded the Nursing profession.
Died 1936
Madam Bhikaji Rustum Kama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay.
Died 1946
H. G. Wells, author of Time Machine and The shape of things to come. Sometimes called the Father of science fiction.
Died 1951
Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
Died 1963
Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73.
Died 1988
Gajanan Jagirdar, the first director of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
Died 2000
Nazia Hussein, Pakistani pop singer.
Died 2015
Om Prakash Manjal, Founder of Hero Company of the bicycle.
Died 2018
Somnath Chatterjee, an Indian politician.
Died 2015
Om Prakash Munjal, the Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (b. 1928)
Died 2016
Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu leader (b. 1921)