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Historical Event on 2/13/1922
The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1931 | Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 2/4/1953 | Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva. |
| 3/30/1699 | Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 8/5/1975 | The RSS, Anand Marg, Jamat-i-Islami, and 23 other organisations were banned. Parliament approved Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA). Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) approved by the Parliament. |
| 5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
| 9/13/1997 | India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu. |
| 3/7/1934 | Nariman Jamshedji Contractor ""Nari Contractor"", cricketer (Indian batsman & captain) was born in Godhra, Gujarat. |
| 3/21/1957 | India's national calender came into force. |
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