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Historical Event on 5/13/1916
Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1985 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 12/1/1989 | A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim. |
| 9/20/1997 | President K. R. Narayanan inaugurates the first Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away. |
| 8/4/1906 | Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur. |
| 4/19/1975 | First Indian Satellite ''Aryabhata'' launched. The Satellite provided technological experience in building and operating a satellite system. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 9/22/1999 | India asks Pakistan to prevent the reported attempt by the JKLF to cross the Line of Control (LOC) on October 4. |
| 12/27/1987 | Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum . |
| 3/13/1963 | Indian Govenment announced 'Arjun Awards' to boost the morale of various sports personalities. |
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