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Historical Event on 12/13/1902
Ilachandra Joshi, famous Hindi novelist, story writer, critic and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1948 | Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder. |
| 12/21/1974 | Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam. |
| 3/6/1991 | Chandrasekhar resigns as PM. |
| 1/21/1997 | Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis. |
| 8/18/1907 | Madam Bhikaji Cama, addressed the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 4/20/1993 | Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade. |
| 11/22/2000 | Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities. |
| 5/12/1906 | Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"". |
| 4/11/1952 | Treaty between France and India, transferring the former French settlement of Chandranagar to India, is ratified by the National Assembly, Paris. It was the last formal step in completing the process of sovereignty. |
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