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Historical Event on 6/13/1905

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
3/9/1931The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London.
7/16/1905A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat.
6/18/1979Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset.
12/17/1971Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war.
11/16/1713Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'.
8/6/1994The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.
8/12/1919Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the father of Indian space technology and scientist, was born at Ahmedabad.