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Historical Event on 7/13/1916
Ramkrishna Bakre (Tatya), veteran journalist and music critic, was born.
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| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 2/25/1970 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 4/10/1875 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore. |
| 10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
| 4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
| 2/19/1922 | Beant Singh, former Chief Minister of Punjab and politician, was born. He played a vital role in supressing terrorist activities in Punjab. |
| 11/5/1945 | Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi. |
| 1/17/1993 | LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
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