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Historical Event on 5/13/1996
Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1936 | Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 6/20/1918 | K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 2/12/1932 | Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 4/26/1945 | Virinchirpuram Krishnamurthi Ramaswamy, cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup), was born in Madras. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
| 12/15/1749 | Shahu Chattrapati, grandson of Shivaji, died. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 11/19/1917 | Indira (Pridarshani) Gandhi, the first Indian Lady Prime Minister, was born at Allahabad. She was the only child of Jawharlal Nehru and took active participation in freedom fight by forming ""Vanar Sena"" (a team of young detectives). She lead India in a successful war against Pakistan to seperate East and West Pakistans and establish the nation of Banglades |
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