JUNE 13
Daily Historical Chronicle UPSC CSE • State PSC • SSC CGL Matrix

13 June: 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 June.

Observances & Special Days
World Day Against Child Labour, and its related observances
Historic Milestones

Major Events on 13 June

Year 1420

Jalaluddin Feroze Shah ascended the throne of Delhi.

Year 1290

Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi.

Year 1290

Firuz Shah captured the throne of Delhi and Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji called himself.

Year 1731

Swedish East India Company was formed. For 15 years King Fredrick of Sweden gave the Company a charter.

Year 1757

Clive marched to Murshidabad against Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah along with the force comprising of 1800 British and 2000 Indian soldiers with eight canons.

Year 1774

Rhode Island introduced anti-slavery laws that banned the import of slaves. This was the first British colony in North America to do so.

Year 1886

A fire in the Canadian city of Vancouver burned down about 1,000 buildings.

Year 1918

Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai.

Year 1920

US Post Office made it illegal to send kids via parcel post.

Year 1931

Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London.

Year 1940

Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.

Year 1943

Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.

Year 1955

USSR’s first diamond mine, Mir Mine, was discovered.

Year 1966

60 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.

Year 1991

Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists.

Year 1992

Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.

Year 1995

India and France sign Bilateral Investment Protection pact.

Year 1996

Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities.

Year 1997

At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi.

Year 1998

India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.

Year 1999

The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.

Year 2000

Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.

Year 2000

Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.

Year 2002

The United States of America withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.

Year 2005

The Santa Maria, California, jury acquitted Michael Jackson of fourteen charges that also include the molestation charge of a 13-year-old boy.

National & Global Icons

Prominent Births & Anniversaries

Born 1831

James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics.

Born 1879

Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, an Indian freedom fighter, nationalist, and founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society.

Born 1889

Salarjung, the famous administrator, was born.

Born 1905

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, a cricketer who played for England.

Born 1909

E. M. S. Namboodiripad, an Indian communist politician and theorist.

Born 1923

Prem Dhawan, an Indian lyricist, music composer, choreographer, and actor.

Born 1964

Piyush Goyal, an Indian politician.

Born 1965

Maninder Singh Harbansingh Billa, cricketer (Indian left arm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93), was born in Pune.

Legacy & Remembrance

Death Anniversaries & Tributes

Died 1927

Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), passed away

Died 1932

Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.

Died 1967

Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar, an Indian artist, famous for his sculptures.

Died 1969

Prahlad Keshav Atre, a prominent Marathi writer, poet, and educationist.

Remembrance

1973': Sir Ram Nath Chopra, great professor of Pharmacology of National Drug Research Institute of India, passed away.

Died 1992

Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.

Died 2012

Mehdi Hasan, a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer.