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Historical Event on 12/13/1978
Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1853 | Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
| 5/11/1885 | Krishnamohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist of Bengal, passed away. |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 10/23/1997 | Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender. |
| 6/26/1983 | Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat. |
| 8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 8/16/2000 | Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure. |
| 4/4/1990 | Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
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