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Historical Event on 7/13/1950

Nehru asks Stalin and Acheson to restore peace in Korea.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1881Publication of newspaper 'Kesri' started.
1/24/1999The Orissa police arrest 47 persons in connection with the killing of the Australian missionary.
10/21/1959Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
4/21/1720Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a great soldier and General.
9/14/1868Swami Virjanand, Sanskrit grammar litterateur and master, passed away at the age of 90.
6/4/1997Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
11/18/1972Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'