13 JUN HISTORY TODAY

Today in Indian History
Events for June 13

13-June-1290	Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi.
13-June-1290	Firuz Shah captured the throne of Delhi and Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji called himself.
13-June-1731	Swedish East India Company was formed. For 15 years King Fredrick of Sweden gave the Company a charter.
13-June-1757	Clive marched to Murshidabad against Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah along with the force comprising of 1800 British and 2000 Indian soldiers with eight canons.
13-June-1879	Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
13-June-1889	Salarjung, famous administrator, was born.
13-June-1905	Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31), was born.
13-June-1918	Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai.
13-June-1927	Henry CK ""Clan"" Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), passed away at the age of
13-June-1931	Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London.
13-June-1932	Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.
13-June-1940	Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.
13-June-1943	Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
13-June-1965	Maninder Singh Harbansingh Billa, cricketer (Indian leftarm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93), was born in Pune.
13-June-1966	60 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
13-June-1973	Sir Ram Nath Chopra, great professor of Pharmacology of National Drug Research Institute of India, passed away.
13-June-1991	Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists.
13-June-1992	Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
13-June-1992	Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.
13-June-1995	India and France sign Bilateral Investment Protection pact.
13-June-1996	Govt. extends for another 2 years the ban imposed on LTTE w.e.f. 14/6/1996 under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
13-June-1996	Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities.
13-June-1997	At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi.
13-June-1998	India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
13-June-1999	The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
13-June-2000	Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
13-June-2000	Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.