13th February- What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 13th February in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 13th February

Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyaya; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949), also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India (Bharatiya Kokila), was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was the second Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh state

Vinod Mehra  (13 February 1945 – 30 October 1990) was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s

Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908 CE, or Shawal 14, 1250 – Rabi’ al-thani 24, 1326 AH) was a religious figure from India and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He claimed to be the Mujaddid (divine reformer) of the fourteenth Islamic century,

Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born in 13 February 1985), is a professional Indian tennis player. Three of Devvarman’s college conquests, John Isner, Kevin Anderson, and Jesse Levine have successful pro careers.

Sharad Kapoor  is an Indian actor, who works in Hindi movies and television. Having debuted in Mera Pyara Bharat in 1994, Kapoor has acted in many films throughout his career, such as Lakshya .

Death anniversaries on 13th February

Ustad Amir Khan  August 15, 1912 – February 13, 1974) was a well-known Indian classical vocalist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Hindustani classical music, and the founder of the Indore Gharana

Balanathan “Balu” Mahendran (born 20 May 1946 in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and cinematographer widely regarded as part of the first in a wave of directors and screenwriters from the Chennai film industry who revitalized Tamil cinema.

Kozhikode Abdul Kader, born Leslie Andrews (February 19, 1916 – February 13, 1977) was a Malayalam playback singer. Born to J. S. Andrews and Manini on February 19, 1916, Andrews converted to Islam and rechristened himself as Abdul Kader when he landed up in Burma

Rajendra Nath Malhotra (1931 − 13 February 2008) was a comedian actor in Indian Hindi and Punjabi films. His family was from Peshawar but settled in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He studied in college at Darbar College, Rewa where Arjun Singh (a Congress politician) and R.P. Agarwal were his class mates

Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), who wrote under the pen name Shahryar, was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in Gaman (1978), Umrao Jaan (1981) and Anjuman (1986), by Muzaffar Ali. In 2008

Notable Events:

1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.

1713 Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort.

1713  Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers

1719 Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after

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