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Historical Event on 3/13/1940
Michael O' Dyer, former Governor of Punjab, was shot by Udham Singh in Caxton Hall at point-blank range in full view of a large gathering in London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/10/1963 | The Kamraj Plan. |
| 9/18/1995 | Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet, died. |
| 8/18/1956 | Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay. |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
| 6/14/1998 | S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai. |
| 12/16/1980 | Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away. |
| 6/17/1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 3/21/1998 | Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate. |
| 10/20/1999 | Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
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