13th March – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 13th March 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 March

Feroze Varun Gandhi (born 13 March 1980, Delhi, India) is an Indian politician, he is a member of Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India, representing the Pilibhit constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party

Geeta Basra (born on 13 March 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared in only two Bollywood films. Basra was born to Punjabi Indian parents in Portsmouth on the south coast of England, but now resides in Mumbai.

Sankaran Kutty Pottekkatt, popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, (March 13, 1913 – August 6, 1982) was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state, South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels

Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a politician from Indian National Lok Dal party and a former Member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha representing Haryana, the upper and lower house of the Indian Parliament.

M. B. Rajesh (born 13 March 1972) is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Palakkad constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) political party.

Death anniversaries on 13th March

Nasir Husain (3 February 1931 in Bhopal – 13 March 2002 in Mumbai) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. Husain first worked with A.R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948.

Shafi Inamdar (1949 – 13 March 1996) was an Indian actor. He started his film career with the film Vijeta and continued it in Ardh Satya. He acted in a number of television serials including Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. Shafi married actress Bhakti Barve.

Ustad Vilayat Khan (August 28, 1928 –March 13, 2004) was one of India’s well known sitar maestros. He recorded his first 78-RPM disc at the age of 8, and gave his last concert in 2004 at the age of 75.

Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar (commonly known as I. I. Chundrigar) was the sixth Prime Minister of Pakistan for approximately 2 months from October 17, 1957 to December 16, 1957. I.I Chundrigar belonged to the Muslim Chundrigar community, and was born in 1897 in Ahmedabad

Al-Hājj Mawlāna Hāfiz Hakīm Noor-ud-Din (c. 1841 – March 13, 1914) was Khalifatul Masih I, head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a renowned physician, writer and theologian, and scholar of Arabic and Hebrew.

Notable Events:

1938 Hitler merged Austria in Germany.

1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.

1963 Indian Govenment announced ‘Arjun Awards’ to boost the morale of various sports personalities.

1989 The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab.

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