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Historical Event on 12/13/1999
The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1999 | Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor. |
| 2/8/1872 | Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India, was assassinated by prisoner Sher Ali during his visit to Andaman Islands. |
| 12/19/1961 | Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops. |
| 12/10/1913 | The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India. |
| 6/16/1893 | Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/16/1893 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 2/2/1949 | Press Trust of India' was established. |
| 10/21/1954 | Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1. |
| 5/5/1966 | Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 8/14/1954 | 'State Carrom Association' was established in Mumbai. |
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