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