History News Desk !!! According to the Gregory calendar, the 13th of February is the 44th day. There are still 321 days left in the year. (322 days in leap year)
Important events of 13 February
1542 – Queen Catherine Hawaii of England was killed. 1575 – The coronation of King Henry III of France in Rames. 1601 – The first visit to the East India Company in London was led by Jan Lankaster. 1633 – Italy’s astronomer Galileo was arrested on reaching Rome. Scientist Galileo Galeli came to Rome for his trial. 1688 – Spain accepts Portuguese as a separate nation. 1689 – William and Mary declared joint ruler of England. 1693 – William & Mary College opened in Virginia, USA. 1713 – Sultan Jahandarshah of Delhi was strangled to death. 1739 – Nadirshah’s army defeated the army of Mughal ruler Muhammad Shah in the war of Karnal. 1788 – Warren Hastings was prosecuted in England for excesses in India. 1795 – The first State University in the US opened in North Carolina. 1820 – Duck Ki Berry, a contender to the French Takht, was killed. 1856 – East India Company also occupied Awadh including Lucknow. 1861 – French II of Naples put arms in front of Gusapi Garibaldi. 1880 – Thomas Edison confirms Edison Effect. 1920 – The Negro National League of Baseball was established in the US. 1931 – New Delhi declared the capital of India. 1941 – Nazis attacked the Dutch Jewish Council in Germany. 1945 – The Soviet Union captured Hungary’s capital Budapest after a 49 -day war with Germany, killing one lakh 59 thousand people. 1959 – Children’s favorite Barbie Doll Sales begins. 1961 – In the Second World War, the Allies capture Budapost. The Security Council approved the use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo. 1966 – The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in East Kazakhstan. 1974 – Dissatisfied Nobel winner Alexander Solzenitsin was expelled from the Soviet Union. 1975 – Turkey established separate administration in the northern part of Cyprus. 1984 – Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched the Majgaon Dock in Mumbai for the Navy. 1988 – Hundreds of people were injured in the campaign of opposition agitators to remove President Hussain Muhammad Irshad in Bangladesh. 1989 – Soviet soldiers began to withdraw from Afghanistan. 1990 – America, Britain and France agreed to re -integrate Germany. 1991 – American fighter jets destroyed several bunkers in Baghdad, killing hundreds of soldiers. 2000 – Death of Charles Schulz, the creator of the much talked about Peanuts Comic Strip. 2001 – The first unmanned vehicle landed on the asteroid ‘Eros’ in space. The 6.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 400 people in the central American country Al Salvador. 2002 – The main accused in the Pearl Kidnapping case, Omar Sheikh, arrested in Lahore, killed 117 in a plane crash in Iran. 2003 – Yash Chopra receives Dadasaheb Phalke Award. 2004 – Indian team won a gold medal at the tenth Asian Shooting Championship in Qualampur. 2005 – The victory of the Shia Islamic Front in the first election after Saddam Hussain in Iraq. 2007 – North Korea agrees to close the nuclear program. 2008 – Pakistan successfully tested a missile missile Ghaznavi. 2009- Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented the interim railway budget for 2009-10. The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly presented a budget of Rs 12,094 crore for the financial year 2009-10. 2010- Nine people, including five women and a foreign national were killed and 53 others were injured in the evening bomb blast in Bakery near the Jewish prayer site in Pune, Maharashtra. 2014 – 14 people were killed and 17 people were injured in an explosion in an illegal gambling house in Calie city of China.
Person born on 13 February
1995 – Varun Bhati – India’s high jump players. 1879 – Sarojini Naidu (Bharat Kokila) – Freedom Fighter (Death- 1949) 1915 – Gopal Prasad Vyas – one of the famous poets, writers and litterateurs of India. 1911 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz – Famous poet, who is known in his revolutionary compositions because of the combination of Rasik Bhava (Inquilabi and Romantic). 1916 – Jagjit Singh Arora Commander of Indian Army 1944 – Oduvil Unnikrishnanan – Indian actor (death- 2006) 1958 – Rashmi Prabha – Contemporary Poetry 1959 – Kamlesh Bhatt Kamal – Contemporary Poet 1945 – Vinod Mehra – Actor of Indian Cinema.
Died on 13 February
2020 – Rajendra Kumar Pachauri – Internationally famous environmentalists. 2016 – O. N. V. Kurup – was the famous Malayali poet and lyricist. 2015 – Dr. Tulsiram – Writer who holds a different place in Dalit writing. 2012 – Akhlaq Muhammad Khan ‘Shaharyar’ – was a famous Urdu poet. 2008 – Rajendra Nath – was a comedian of Hindi cinema. 1974 – Ustad Amir Khan – Famous singer of Indian classical music (born 1912) 1964 – Asit Kumar Haldar – was imaginative, emotional modern painter. 1918 – Sir Sundar Lal – Was a well -known jurist and public activist. 1832 – Budhu Bhagat – Famous revolutionary and beginner of ‘Larka Rebellion’.
Important opportunities and celebrations of 13 February
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