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Significance of 13th June:



1290- Jalal-ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi.

1943- Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.

2002- The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2018- Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1831- James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. 

1964- Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician who is serving as Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019.

1980- Indu Menon is an acclaimed Indian novelist and short story writer. She was awarded the Central Sahitya Award for Young Writers in 2014.

1994- Deepika Kumari is an Indian professional archer who competes in the recurve category.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1973- Sir Ram Nath Chopra was an Indian Medical Service officer and a doyen of science and medicine in India.

1982- Usha Mukherjee was a figure in the anti-British independence movement of the Indian subcontinent.

1996- Pandit Pran Nath was an Indian classical singer and master of the Kirana gharana singing style.

2012- Mehdi Hassan was widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of ghazal singing.

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