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Kashmir Martyrs' Day (Urdu: یومِ شہداءِ کشمیر Transliteration. Youm-e-Shuhada-e-Kashmir [1]) or Kashmir Day, [a] was a former official state holiday observed in Kashmir in remembrance of 21 Muslim protesters killed on 13 July 1931 by Dogra forces of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India.
July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history. ...
On 13 July 1931, thousands of Kashmiris flocked to the central jail in Srinagar to see the trial of Abdul Qadeer. As the time for obligatory Zuhr prayer approached, a Kashmiri stood up to deliver the adhan. The Dogra governor, Raizada Tartilok Chand, ordered his soldiers to open fire on them, killing 22 Kashmiris. [3]
Highlights of this day in history: Live Aid concerts held in London and Philadelphia; A French revolutionary is stabbed in his bath; Civil War draft riots erupt in New York; A power blackout hits ...
In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in a secret attic apartment where she would write the remainder of the diary. After Frank's family was arrested in 1944, the diary was ...
— attributed to Horace Greeley, New-York Daily Tribune, July 13, 1865 [1] [2] The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations [ 3 ] gives the full quotation as, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country", from Hints toward Reforms [ 4 ] (1850) by Horace Greeley, but the phrase does not occur in that book.
July may be hot but it's also one of the most fun months on the calendar! Those 31 days are comprised of pool parties, patriotic celebrations (hello, 4th of July), and those endless summer ...
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