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Importance of 13th August in History

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  • 1645 आज ही के दिन स्वीडन और डेनमार्क ने ब्रह्मसब्ररो शांति समझौते पर हस्ताक्षर किए गए।  
  • 1795 आज ही के दिन महारानी अहिल्याबाई होलकर का निधन हुआ था।  
  • 1936 आज ही के दिन प्रसिद्ध भारतीय महिला क्रांतिकारी भीकाजी कामा का निधन हुआ था।  
  • 1956 आज ही के दिन लोकसभा में राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग विधेयक पारित किया गया। 
  • 2004 आज ही के दिन एथेंस में 28वें ओलंपिक खेलों की शुरुआत हुई।  
  • 2013 आज ही के दिन लंदन में 30वें ओलंपिक खेलों का समापन हुआ।  

    • 1964
    Last executions took place in Britain when Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen were hung for the murder of John Alan West
    Great Britain
    1934
    The comic strip Lil Abner by Al Capp was first published
    United States
    1918
    Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. .
    1910
    Death of Florence Nightingale, nurse
    Great Britain
    1899
    Birth of Alfred Hitchcock, film director
    Great Britain
    1896
    Death of John Everett Millais, painter
    Great Britain
    1888
    Birth of John Logie Baird, inventor of television
    Great Britain
    1876
    The start of the first complete performance of Wagner's Ring in Bayreuth
    Germany
    1868
    The first British convict to be executed inside prison, as opposed to in public, was 18 year old murderer Thomas Wells, at Maidstone.
    Great Britain
    1863
    Death of Eugene Delacroix, painter
    France
    1860
    Birth of Annie Oakley, legendary rifle shooter and first American superstar
    United States
    1814
    Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
    1704
    Battle of Blenheim
    1422
    Birth of William Caxton, first British printer
    Great Britain
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