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Historical Event on 4/13/1851
Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/6/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India ends. |
| 12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
| 7/2/1993 | ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance. |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 5/8/1930 | Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest. |
| 7/30/2000 | Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam. |
| 10/2/1906 | Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour. |
| 12/27/1985 | The Indian National Congress party, led by Rajiv Gandhi, begins its centenary celebrations in Bombay. . |
| 11/20/1967 | First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
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