Historical Events - October 13
1773 : Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy.
1884 : The timeline of all the world was determined according to international standards, with the line passing near Greenwich being zero.
1923 : The Turkish capital was moved from Istanbul to Ankara.
1946 : France adopted a new constitution.
1970 : Fiji entered the United Nations.
1976 : The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus was taken at the Centres of disease control and prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
1983 : Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first cellular system in the United States.
2013 : 115 killed and 110 injured in riots in Madhya Pradesh.
2016 : The Maldives announced its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
Famous Birthdays – October 13
1877: Bhulabhai Desai, an Indian activist in the freedom fighters’ home rule movement.
1911: Ashok Kumar Ganguly (Dadamuni), Indian film actor.
1924: Motiru Udayam, Indian politician.
1925: Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister.
1936: Chitti Babu, Indian harpist, and composer.
1943: Peter Sauber, founder of Sauber F1.
1948: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani Sufi singer.
1967: C Vijayakumar, the president, and chief executive officer of HCL Technologies.
Death Anniversaries – October 13
54 AD: Claudius, Roman emperor.
1240: Razia Sultana, the first female Sultan of Delhi.
1282: Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren Buddhist sect in Japan.
1866: William Hopkins, an English mathematician, and geologist.
1900: Ameer Minai, an Indian poet.
1911: Margaret Noble Sister Nivedita, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
1938: E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, creators of the Popeye cartoon.
1945: Milton Hershey, founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company.
1965: Paul Hermann Muller, Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the toxic effects of DDT on many insects.
1987: Kishore Kumar (Abhas Kumar Ganguly), Indian playback singer, composer, lyricist, producer, director, actor, and screenwriter.
1995: Dr. Rameshwar Shukla (Anchal), Indian Hindi writer.
2001: Dr. Jal Minocher Mehta, an Indian doctor, a renowned leprosy surgeon.
2003: Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate.
2004: Nirupa Roy was an Indian actress.
2018: Annapurna Devi, an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music.
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