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On This Day

13 February

🇮🇳 In India
1879 Sarojini Naidu, political activist and poet, was born in Hyderabad. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule.
1931 Inauguration of New Delhi as the capital of India took place.
1992 Niranjana (Kulakunda Shiva Rao), Kannada playwright, novelist and a freedom fighter, died at Hyderabad.
2016 O N V Kurup, Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, who won the Jnanpith Award for the year 2007, died. He also received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
🌎 Elsewhere
1258 Baghdad, then a city of one million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, ending the Islamic Golden Age.
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
2000 The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M Schulz dies.
2019 NASA confirms Mars Opportunity rover's mission has ended after 15 years due to a sandstorm damaging its communications.
⭐ Significance
World Radio Day celebrates radio as the mass media reaching the widest audience in the world. It is an international day celebrated on 13 February each year. The Day was decided by UNESCO on 3 November 2011 during its 36th conference.


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