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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Radiya Sultan, first lady ruler of Delhi throne, passed away in a battle. |
| 10/13/1679 |
More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm. |
| 10/13/1781 |
A treaty was singed between the Britishers and ruler of Gwalior, Scindia. |
| 10/13/1877 |
Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born. |
| 10/13/1905 |
Sister Nivedita died. |
| 10/13/1911 |
Ashok Kumar Ganguly, famous film actor, was born. He is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
| 10/13/1911 |
Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
| 10/13/1967 |
Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
| 10/13/1971 |
Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born. |
| 10/13/1978 |
Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress. |
| 10/13/1987 |
Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay. |
| 10/13/1989 |
Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha. |
| 10/13/1991 |
Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi. |
| 10/13/1991 |
PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. |
| 10/13/1991 |
Shatrughan Sinha, film star, decides to contest New Delhi Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket against Rajesh Khanna, the Congress nominee. |
| 10/13/1998 |
Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department. |
| 10/13/1998 |
India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers. |
| 10/13/1999 |
Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India. |
| 10/13/1999 |
Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka |
| 10/13/1999 |
No change in portfolios of Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Fernandes. |
| 10/13/1999 |
Chandrababu Naidu, TDP leader, said that his party would support the NDA Government unconditionally. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 8/5/1978 | Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra. |
| 11/9/1924 | Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born. |
| 11/22/1993 | Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna. |
| 10/29/1929 | Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
| 3/22/2000 | India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. |
| 5/26/1999 | IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2. |
| 6/16/1990 | Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 2/28/1835 | Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20. |
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