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13 August

🇮🇳 In India

1638 Durgadas Rathore, who played a major role in the Rajput Rebellion (1708-1710), was born.

1784 The Pitt's India Act was passed in the British Parliament. It gave the British Government complete control over the East India Company’s affairs and its administration in India.

1795 Queen Ahilyabai Holkar passed away at the age of 70.

1848 Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, social worker and writer, was born. He is remembered for his monumental work, The Economic History of India (1902), and his translation of the Rig Veda in Bengali.

1936 Famous Indian woman revolutionary Bhikaji Cama died.

1951 Hindustan Trainer 2, the first aircraft manufactured in India, took its first flight.

2008 India successfully tested the multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) weapon system Pinak.

🌎 Elsewhere

1889 The first coin-operated telephone is patented by William Gray.

1899 Sir Alfred Hitchcock, English-born American film director, was born.

1910 British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies.

1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England.

1926 Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, was born.

1985 A three-year-old boy from Dublin becomes the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.

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