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Historical Event on 12/13/1999

The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1913Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar .
8/3/1991About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.
4/12/1799The Church Missionary Society was organized in London under the original name of the Society for Missions in Africa and the East. This Anglican missions agency currently works in fields located in Africa, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran and Palestine.
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
2/27/1803Great fire in Bombay.
12/23/1969Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi.
1/15/1921Babasaheb Anantrao Bhosle, eighth Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
3/1/1909First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.
4/28/1943Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
11/1/1956Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.