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Historical Event on 2/13/1970

Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1923Nagpur University started working.
7/13/1913Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar .
5/1/1913Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
4/11/1999India successfully test-fires the extended range ''Agni-II'' missile, bridging a key gap in its minimum nuclear deterrent profile.
1/18/1968The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
10/29/1929Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
8/30/1934Balkrishna Pandharinath Gupte ""Baloo"", cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie), was born in Bombay.
8/19/1996Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
12/22/1998The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist.