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Historical Event on 11/13/1922

Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
3/14/1910Dalai Lama makes a rare state visit to the Viceroy of Calcutta.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
8/18/1990Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
4/1/1855Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.
2/22/1946Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
5/13/1962Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) became the second President of India. He held this office till May 13, 1967.
5/22/199611th Lok Sabha's first session begins.