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Historical Event on 8/13/1928
Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 12/14/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award. |
| 2/23/1993 | Noted Hindi poet Naresh Mehta wins Gyanpith Award. |
| 8/2/1891 | Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born. |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/5/1868 | Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar alias Save Dada, who filmed the felicitation function of Wrangler R. P. Paranjapye, was born. This film was titled as ""The Fresh Indian Regular of Cambridge University."" He was the First Short Documentary Film Maker of India. |
| 1/5/1998 | Laloo Yadav, RJD president, and BSP chief Kanshi Ram launch a seven-party ""Jan Morcha"". |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 8/3/1991 | About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
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