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Historical Event on 6/13/1889
Salarjung, famous administrator, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/7/1905 | Raghunath Govind Sardesai, journalist and Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 8/19/1927 | Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa. |
| 1/28/1996 | Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
| 3/13/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final. |
| 11/7/1966 | Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives. |
| 7/12/1909 | Vimal Rai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 1/21/1981 | Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, passed away. |
| 2/17/1997 | Notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj released from jail after 20 years, and re-arrested soon after release under Foreigners' Regional Registration Act. |
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