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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
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
2/13/1994Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away.
6/1/1970Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969.
4/18/1971Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
4/10/1901Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
6/30/1995CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.
8/25/1960Olympics opened at Rome.