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Historical Event on 8/13/1988

Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
12/4/1997World Bank commits to Haryana a loan of $600 millions (about Rs. 2,350 crores) - largest single bank loan to any State.
11/5/1976Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
6/10/1832Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born.
2/24/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
8/28/1667Sardar Jay Singh I, the famous king- Mirza Raja, a ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur) also in Aurangzeb's kingdom, passed away at Barhanpur.
1/26/1965Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India.
12/24/1924Mohammed Rafi, famous playback singer, was born.