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Historical Event on 12/13/2000

The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/30/1870Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter.
6/25/1998Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
9/14/1893Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started.
4/17/1997Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died.
4/12/2000Ban on LTTE for two more years from May 14, says the Union Home Minister L. K. Advani.
5/30/1955Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away.
10/15/1994SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV.
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.