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Historical Event on 2/13/1994

Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1962Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
2/2/2000The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry clears Ms. Deepa Mehta's film ''Water'' after the director agreed to make some changes in the script.
1/10/1897Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
4/8/1993CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested.
2/18/1999Ramakrishna Hedge, Commerce Minister, launched the India Brand Equity Fund (IBEF).
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
10/30/1924Word Saving Day.