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Historical Event on 8/13/1638
Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/14/1868 | Swami Virjanand, Sanskrit grammar litterateur and master, passed away at the age of 90. |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 12/1/1931 | The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in future constitution. |
| 9/4/1997 | Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 2/11/1997 | NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants. |
| 2/4/1924 | Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born. |
| 11/6/1996 | India wins Titan's cup beating South Africa in Mumbai. |
| 3/27/1993 | Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours. |
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