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Historical Event on 4/13/1971
Carlton Chapman, Indian Soccer (Football) player, was born in Bangalore, Karnataka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
| 5/15/1864 | Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 9/29/1930 | Ramnath Baburao Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/6/1892 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 7/12/1957 | Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan. |
| 9/24/1995 | Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University. |
| 2/15/1945 | Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma. |
| 8/1/1899 | Kamala Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, was born. |
| 7/12/1994 | India expels Pak diplomat; Indian attache tortured in Islamabad. |
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