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Historical Event on 12/13/2000
Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1992 | Sukha and Jinda, assassins of former army chief Gen. A. S. Vaidya, hanged in Pune jail. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 1/1/1989 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Young Reader"". |
| 6/16/1997 | P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 3/31/1904 | British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans. |
| 9/26/1919 | Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
| 11/11/1872 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b |
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