Year 1660
Battle in Pavanakhinda.
JULY 13
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13 July: 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 July.
Year 1830
Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Alexander Duff started Scottish Church College with five students.
Year 1837
Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace. It has since become the official Royal residence of England.
Year 1863
More than a thousand people were injured in a riot by opponents of the Civil War draft in New York.
Year 1908
Women participate in Olympic tournaments.
Year 1929
Jatindranath Das launches fast-unto-death fast in Lahore jail He died in this fast.
Year 1929
The revolutionary Jatindranath Das started a 63-day historic hunger strike that led to his death.
Year 1955
28-year-old Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her lover David Blakely. She was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom
Year 2011
The country’s financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by triple blasts. The blasts took place at Jhaveri Bazaar, Opera House, and Dadar in Mumbai.
Year 2011
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of the United Nations.
Year 2013
Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
Year 2016
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
Born 1863
Margaret Murray, an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.
Born 1892
Kesarbai Kerkar, an Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
Born 1942
American actor Harrison Ford was born
Born 1944
Birth of Arrow Rubik, creator of Rubik Cube.
Born 1953
Vairamuthu Ramasamy, an Indian poet, lyricist, and novelist.
Born 1953
West Indian cricket player Larry Gomes is born.
Born 1964
Indian cricketer Utpal Chatterjee is born
Born 1982
Master Saleem, an Indian singer from Punjab, India.
Born 1993
Daniel Bentley, English footballer
Born 1995
Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
Born 1995
Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
Born 2003
Wyatt Oleff, American child actor
Born 2005
Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Canadian child actor
Died 1660
Bajiprabhu Deshpande sacrificed his life for Swarajya by fighting Pavankhind.
Died 1793
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat passed away.
Died 1969
philosopher, thinker, yogi, freedom fighter and writer Maharshi Nyayaratna Dhundiraj Shastri Vinod passed away. (Born 12 January 1902)
Died 1980
Botswana's first President, Sreetse Khama, dies
Died 1990
Sports critic and commentator Ardeshir Fudorji Sohrabji alias Bobby Taleir Khan passed away.
Died 1994
Dhrupad singer, composer teacher, Pandit Krishna Gundopant Ginde passed away. (Born December 26, 1925)
Died 1995
Ashapurna Devi, a prominent Indian novelist, and poet.
Died 2000
Death of Indira Sant, recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, writer and writer. (Born 4 January 1914)
Died 2009
Hindi Marathi film actor Nilu Phule passes away
Died 2010
Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)