War · April 13, 1919

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Name: Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Start: 1919-04-13
Location: Jallianwala Bagh, British Raj

107 years ago · Jallianwala Bagh, British Raj

107th anniversary

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre (IPA:), also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919.

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The 108th anniversary falls on April 13, 2027.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French:; born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a writer and professor who holds both French and Mauritian nationality.

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