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Historical Event on 10/13/1905
Sister Nivedita died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 3/31/1997 | The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points. |
| 1/19/1990 | Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns. |
| 9/30/1996 | Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 11/15/1997 | INS Delhi' commissioned. |
| 2/28/1835 | Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20. |
| 3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 2/10/1916 | Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged. |
| 9/29/2000 | The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol). |
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