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Historical Event on 5/13/1953
The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/6/2000 | The Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel. |
| 1/31/1948 | Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder. |
| 7/7/1998 | Nag, indigenously developed anti-tank missile, is test-fired again. |
| 6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991). |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 2/1/1894 | Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born. |
| 4/17/1975 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 12/11/1987 | Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion. |
| 6/9/1992 | LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala. |
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