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Historical Event on 12/13/1978
Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 11/5/1995 | Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires. |
| 10/17/1979 | Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 7/18/1857 | The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established. |
| 8/17/1970 | The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi. |
| 6/2/1975 | India's First Spunge Iron project inaugurated at Vijaywada. |
| 6/1/1929 | V. Shantaram, S. Fattehlal (Sheikh Syed Fattehlal), Vishnupant Damle and Keshavrao B. Dhaiber, alongwith Sita Ram Kulkami, founded the 'Prabhat Film Company' at Kolhapur. |
| 10/5/1991 | Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years. |
| 11/20/1969 | The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings. |
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