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13 January - India on this day22 events

1940

Sir Michael O'Dwyer, ex-governor of Punjab, murdered by an Indian in London.

#crime#general13-January-1940
1994

Indian Airlines Bangalore-Madras A 320 Airbus with 56 passengers and seven crew hijacked.

#crime#general13-January-1994
2000

V.R. Nedunchezhiyan, (79), former Tamil Nadu Finance Minister and AIADMK chairman, died in Chennai after a heart attack.

#money#death13-January-2000
1993

Bombay death toll rises to 550 raising the toll in the Ayodhya-related violence since December 6 to 753.

#disaster#religion13-January-1993
1911

Satya Pal Gupta, educationist, was born at Aligarh.

#birth#education13-January-1911
1926

D. B. Pat, veteran leader OF 'Shetkari Kamgar Party', was born.

#birth#politics13-January-1926
1938

Shivkumar Sharma, famous Santoor player, was born.

#birth13-January-1938
1949

Rakesh Sharma, first Indian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11) to go in space, was born.

#birth#science13-January-1949
1948

Kenia Hirjee Jayantilal, cricketer (5 at Kingston, 71 his only inns for India), was born in Hyderabad.

#birth#sports13-January-1948
1951

Chandrika Premji Keniya, social worker, was born.

#birth13-January-1951
1964

200 die in Hindu-Muslim riot in Calcutta.

#religion13-January-1964
1932

Opening of the Lloyd Barrage or Sukkur Dam, the world's largest irrigation project.

#general13-January-1932
1967

Samachar Bharti inaugurated in New Delhi.

#general#command13-January-1967
1709

Bahadhur Shah I defeated his brother Kam Bakhsh at Hydrabad as the Mughal Emperor consolidated his position.

#royal event13-January-1709
1897

On landing at Durbanairport, Gandhiji was mobbed by a crowd excited by reports of his speeches in India on conditions of indentured Indian labour in South Africa.

#labour13-January-1897
1995

The 14th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica, consisting of 63 members under the leadership of Dr. S.D.Sharma (Scientist, NPL), reaches Antarctica.

#science13-January-1995
1999

Justice (retd.) Anshuman Singh, presently Governor of Gujarat, is appointed new Governor of Rajasthan.

#law13-January-1999
2000

S. Raman and Moum Das lift singles title in the National table tennis championship in Lucknow.

#sports13-January-2000
1709

Marathas defeated Britishers in battle of Vadgaon.

#war13-January-1709
1849

Sikhs again lost in Chillianwala in India but British suffered heavy casualties.

#war13-January-1849
1974

Saraswatibai, famous music expert and classical singer, passed away.

#death#women13-January-1974
1998

Shambu Sen, 62, Hindi film music director and dance master, passed away in Mumbai of cereberal haemorrhage.

#death13-January-1998