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Historical Event on 8/13/1963
Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1997 | Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court. |
| 3/29/1979 | Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
| 12/17/1877 | Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi. |
| 10/30/1990 | Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid to perform 'karseva'. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 4/4/1990 | Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989. |
| 7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 11/16/1999 | Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. |
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