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Historical Event on 8/13/1943
Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
| 7/27/1941 | Japanese forces land in Indo-China. |
| 11/13/1998 | Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali. |
| 3/30/1665 | Murarbaji died at Purandar fort during a battle with Dilerkhan. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
| 3/11/1963 | First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
| 12/20/1904 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
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