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Historical Event on 5/13/2000
Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1715 | Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army. |
| 1/21/1980 | Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala. |
| 3/6/2000 | India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest. |
| 2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
| 1/24/1857 | Calcutta University established. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 1/22/1901 | Nirmal Kumar Bose was born. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
| 3/5/1991 | Congress threatens to withdraw support to the minority government of Chandrasekhar on the issue of police surveillance in Rajiv Gandhi's residence. |
| 10/16/1906 | Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad. |
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