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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.
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]
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World Rock Day, in Portuguese Dia Mundial do Rock, is observed annually on July 13 and celebrates rock music.The date alludes to the Live Aid benefit concert, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure on July 13, 1985, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; [1] however, even though the holiday is called "World Rock Day", it is celebrated only in Brazil.
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (13th RF) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I.It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice, seeing action at the Somme and the Ancre, at Arras and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.
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