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Historical Event on 2/13/1879
Sarojini Naidu ""Nightingale of India"", was born at Hyderabad. She was the first Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress and took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931.

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8/18/1900	Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
8/15/1947	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
5/23/1947	The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.
4/6/1919	Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
11/29/1959	Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
5/14/1982	All India Radio renamed as 'Akashwani' but it's Urdu service yet announces that it's All India Radio.
4/2/1994	Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa.
4/2/1994	Babur declared battle against Rana Sangram Singh.
2/20/1953	India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
4/27/1857	Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India's first Cinema Hall - 'Elphinstone Palace' at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, was born.

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