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Historical Event on 2/13/1999
The 5th National Games were inaugurated by President K.R. Narayanan in Imphal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/19/1996 | AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989. |
| 9/11/1895 | Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra. |
| 10/5/1991 | Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years. |
| 6/3/1995 | President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months. |
| 3/31/1663 | Mir Jumla, Mughal Commander, passed away in Bihar. |
| 12/4/1973 | Mohan Rakesh, famous modern Hindi dramatist, novelist and story writer, passed away. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 5/29/1993 | Ramesh More, Shiv Sena MLA, was murdered. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 5/13/1648 | Redfort construction was completed |
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