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Historical Event on 7/13/1913
Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1979 | First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay. |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 1/4/1966 | ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan. |
| 11/14/1926 | Piloo H. Mody, social reformer, politician and architect, was born at Bombay. |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 3/19/1982 | Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946, passed away at the age of 94. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb 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. |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
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