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Historical Event on 9/13/1997

Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1979Rohini Technology Payload (RTP) intended for measuring in-flight performance of first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian Space launch vehicle, failed to be placed in orbit.
10/18/1993Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died.
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
11/14/1967Kanakaiya Nayudu Colonel Cottari , cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), passed away at Indore.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
1/27/1999P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest.
11/8/1893Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.
2/2/1949Press Trust of India' was established.
3/5/1989Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bihar CM, resigns.