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Historical Event on 3/13/1997

Sister Nirmala Joshi, 63, is chosen to succeed Mother Teresa as the Superior-General of Missionaries of Charity.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/2/1994India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months.
10/20/1961B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
10/9/1931Air Force was established.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
9/6/1961D. N. Kohli was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 28-05-1966.
4/25/1993Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
3/31/1993Kidnapped cardiac surgeon Dr. Abdul Ahad Guroo killed in Srinagar.