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Historical Event on 9/13/1893
Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of 'Prarthana Samaj', passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1781 | Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore. |
| 3/1/1930 | Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras. |
| 5/19/2000 | A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency. |
| 7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 2/18/1918 | Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 9/28/1964 | The simmering dispute of India and Pakistan between the Hindus and Muslims erupted again in Kashmir. Fighting was also reported on this day in the Indian province of Rajasthan. China, which supported Pakistan in the dispute, sent massed troops on its border. |
| 9/17/1999 | Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards. |
| 3/7/1999 | 22 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi. |
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