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Historical Event on 5/13/1923

Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam).

Other Historical Dates and Events
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7/29/1994Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
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7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.
3/27/1977The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
11/30/2000Dr. Anil Kakodkar takes charge as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.