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Historical Event on 2/13/1719

Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
12/12/1964Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died.
12/1/1764Battle of Anvadi.
6/1/1790A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam.
2/7/1856Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
1/26/1927Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
5/28/1895Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.
10/30/1963Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai.