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Historical Event on 5/13/1998
World Bank cancels India donors meet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian 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. |
| 5/20/1932 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc. |
| 5/20/1932 | Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 5/9/1998 | Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai. |
| 7/10/1984 | White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government. |
| 7/28/1912 | Ramchandra Gondo Ginde, famous neuro surgeon, was born. |
| 4/22/1942 | The Telecommunication Training Centre was established at Jabalpur. |
| 3/26/1991 | Chautala loses majority after the disqualification of three Janata Dal (S) members. Janata Party merges with Janata Dal (S). |
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