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Historical Event on 2/13/1936

Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/23/1661Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.
9/4/1929N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
2/24/1996S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.
7/4/1992Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh.
7/4/1992Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
2/20/1992Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.
9/29/1996Water from Krishna river (AP) released for Madras.