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13 May

🇮🇳 In India

1638 Construction work of the Red Fort in Delhi was started. It took 10 years to build the fort.

1857 Ronald Ross, British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, was born in Almora, (now in Uttarakhand). He was the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe.

1967 Zakir Husain became the third President of India.

1998 India carried out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The US and Japan imposed economic sanctions on India.

2001 R K Narayan, Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi, died in Chennai at age 94. His work included 34 novels and hundreds of short stories.

🌎 Elsewhere

1989 Thousands of students begin a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, as part of anti-corruption and pro-democracy demonstrations.

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