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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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