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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 |
| 2/13/1861 | Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. |
| 2/16/1942 | The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 4/30/1991 | BJP election manifesto promises Presidential form of government. |
| 5/20/1850 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born. |
| 6/25/1658 | 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail. |
| 1/28/1902 | Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 11/9/1999 | BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor. |
| 4/7/1962 | Umrigar slams 172* vs WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes. |
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