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Historical Event on 11/13/1970

Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1992President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges.
11/24/1932The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything.
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
7/11/1998Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
1/15/1999Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
1/21/1993Biren Roy, follower of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
3/21/1957India's national calender came into force.