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Historical Event on 5/13/1997
Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1772 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal. |
| 10/30/1996 | CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case. |
| 1/24/1857 | Calcutta University established. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1/19/1919 | Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born. |
| 5/25/1990 | Jag Mohan, J&K Governor, resigns. Girish Chandra Saxena appointed new Governor. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 3/30/1977 | Swami Agnivesh merged his 'Bhartiya Aryasabha Party' in Janata Party. |
| 12/15/1997 | Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'. |
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