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Historical Event on 5/13/1953

The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
10/20/1997All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
3/20/1965Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi.
8/9/1966Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort.
4/11/1999The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).
9/20/1944Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi.
10/1/1993Two more Election Commissioners appointed.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
1/6/1959Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982), was born in Chandigarh.