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Historical Event on 4/13/1972
Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/12/1985 | Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people. |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 3/5/1997 | Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka. |
| 1/25/1856 | Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians. |
| 10/17/1995 | BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP. |
| 3/20/1993 | Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested. |
| 7/6/1901 | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal. |
| 7/17/1974 | J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
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