On This Day
13 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1830 Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Alexander Duff started Scottish Church College with five students. It is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in India.
- 1929 Jatindra Nath Das, along with other revolutionary fighters, started a hunger strike in Lahore Jail, demanding equality for Indian political prisoners with those from Europe. The hunger strike lasted 63 days.
- 1974 India played their first ODI against England at Headingley, England.
- 1993 A K Ramanujan, poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics, died in Chicago, US. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. He was a poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1798 English poet William Wordsworth visited the ruins of Tintern Abbey. It inspired him to write the poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", expressing his deep love for nature and how nature was able to completely change his life for the better.
- 1898 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer, patented his practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.
- 1924 Alfred Marshall, founding father of modern economics, died in Cambridge, England. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years.
- 1930 The first World Cup soccer competition began in Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1934 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, and the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born.
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