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Historical Event on 7/13/1998

The Government is prevented from tabling the Women's Reservation Bill.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1872Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
7/5/1992Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
6/17/1917Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
8/25/199710,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265.
1/9/1995T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.
5/24/1960Dr. Ida Sophie Schruder, founder of famous 'Vellore Hospital', passed away in Kodaikanal.
2/21/1991The President accepts the resignation of 5 cabinet members who were disqualified by the Speaker as per the anti-defection law.