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Historical Event on 12/13/1978

Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/29/1954India accepted Tibet as a part of China.
9/3/1999Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil.
2/6/1887Manabendra Nath Roy (his childhood name was Narendranath Bhattacharya), leftist thinker, great Indian politician and philosophist, was born at Arbelia village of 24-Parganas of West Bengal. He was the founder of 'Radical Democratic Party' after quitting Congress during World War II.
3/23/1942Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean.
12/6/1897Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born.
7/18/1998The Maharashtra Government bans the controversial Marathi play on Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. It was produced by Mr. Udhay Dhurat.
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
4/8/1998India enters into a historical partnership with France with the formal launch of a joint programme for restoring and protecting the Taj Mahal.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
6/25/1994Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.