13th September - A Day in the life of India

Learn about the importance of 13th September. Significant historical events, Famous Birthdays and Death Anniversaries on this day.

13th September in the History of India

• 2019 - The UP government decided to start paying their own income tax, ending a four-decade-old practice of the state exchequer shelling out the amount for them, under the Uttar Pradesh Ministers' Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Act, 1981.
• 2019 - Bihar's Sanoj Raj became the first crorepati of KBC 11. 
• 2019 - 11 dead, 5 missing after boat capsizes during Ganesh Visarjan in Bhopal
• 2019 - ABVP sweeps 3 of the Top 4 seats, and NSUI could manage 1 seat of the secretary post. Poll sees 39.9% voter turnout.
• 2008 – Delhi was hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• 1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

Birthdays on September 13

• 2010 - Yug, Son of Kajol and Ajay Devgan
• 1995 – Shubham Khajuria, Indian cricketer
• 1980 – Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player
• 1865 – William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (d. 1951)

Death Anniversaries on September 13

• 2020 - Raghuvansh Prasad Singh was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He resigned from the RJD party in September 2020 and wrote a letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav saying he was being sidelined.
• 2012 – Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (b. 1926)
• 1975 – Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1944 - Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan aka Nora Inayat-Khan was born on the 1st of January 1914 and was a British heroine of World War II renowned for her service as the Special Operations Executive. She also went by the name Nora Baker and was a published author of Indian and American descent who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service in the SOE, the highest civilian decoration in the UK. She was also Britain's first Muslim war heroine. Khan was executed by Germany in their concentration camps when she didn't reveal her identity or any kind of secret code to the Germans (born - on 1st January 1914)
• 1931 – Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (b. 1882)
• 1929 – Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (b. 1904)