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Historical Event on 8/13/1951
Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1991 | Sivarasan and Subha, the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi case, commit suicide in Bangalore. |
| 4/14/1990 | Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 7/22/1998 | 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. |
| 8/22/1980 | Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 12/25/1876 | Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born. |
| 10/5/1989 | Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
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