JULY 13: EVENTS: • 1573 – Eighty Years War: the Siege ofHaarlem ends after seven months. • 1977 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethiopian-Somali War. • 1985 – Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. • 2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130. BIRTHDAYS: • 1527 – John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. • 1892 – Kesarbai Kerkar, Indian classical vocalist. • 1939 – Prakash Mehra, Indian film producer and director1953-Vairamuthu, Indian Tamil poet and lyricist. • 1980 – Master Saleem, Indian singer DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: • 1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. • 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. • 1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana politician, 1st President of Botswana. • 2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer2013 – Sharmila Rege, Indian sociologist and author. IMPORTANT DAY: • Statehood Day (Montenegro). #ashh
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