History Of 13 January | On This Day In World

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In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 13 January are as follows: - 

1450: Portuguese sailor Bartholomew Deyaz was born. Vasco da Gama discovered the waterway of India only using the waterway of Deyaz.

1610: Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter.

1818: Rana of Udaipur compromises with Britain for the protection of Mewar.

1822: The design of the country's modern flag was adopted for the first time in Epidador by the National Assembly of Greece for their naval flag.

1893: The first meeting of the Independent Labor Party begins in the United Kingdom.

1910: New York City broadcasts radio for the first time in the world. The transmission of which could also be heard on a ship located 20 km away in the sea.

1911: Hindi poet Shamsher Bahadur Singh was born.

1915: A devastating earthquake in the city of Avezzano, Italy killed more than 30,000 people.

1930: Mickey Mouse comic strip was first published.

1938: Pandit Shivkumar, the famous santoor player of the country, was born.

1948: Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, started a fast unto death to maintain Hindu-Muslim unity.

1949: Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian wing commander to go into space, was born.

1953: Marshal Josip is elected President of Yugoslavia.

1961: Former British Navy aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance is appointed to the Brazilian Navy as Minas Gerais.

1964: There were terrible communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Kolkata, the capital of India's eastern state of West Bengal in which at least 100 people were killed and more than 400 people were injured.

1978: NASA selected the first American female astronaut.

1993: The United States and its allies launched an air strike on Iraq to implement a no fly zone in southern Iraq.

2009: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farrukh Abdullah was made the President of the National Conference.

2018: Chelsea Manning, a former soldier responsible for WikiLeaks, announced his bidding for the US Senate.

2020: He was fired by team owner Jim Crane for his role in the sign-stealing scandal after Houston Astros manager AJ Hench and general manager Jeff Leuven were suspended for one year by MLB.