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Historical Event on 8/13/1954

Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1908Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born.
12/21/1952Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
8/9/1942Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji) forms the Indian National Army in Malaya with the help of the Japanese. He inaugurates the Government of Free India at Singapore.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
1/1/1965This year was announced to be observed as the ""Year of International Co-operation"".
1/25/1957Kashmir becomes Indian state.
3/1/1901Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born.