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Historical Event on 12/13/2000
The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1987 | Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar. |
| 4/29/1960 | Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away. |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 6/10/1997 | 18 persons were killed and 10 wounded by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants at Thalchhara near Agartala. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 5/5/1994 | Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader. |
| 10/31/1997 | Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai. |
| 11/9/1999 | BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor. |
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