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Historical Event on 2/13/1994
Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1870 | Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/9/1999 | Rabri Devi is sworn in Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time. |
| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 11/15/1995 | Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
| 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. |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 1/5/2000 | Tamil Nadu regains Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament. |
| 3/2/1997 | Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit. |
| 9/4/1927 | World fliers reach Karachi, India. |
| 7/27/1972 | Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of C.O.I.(M-L), died in prison. |
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