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Historical Event on 3/13/1989
The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/12/1952 | Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament. |
| 5/19/1992 | Arjuna award for Tennis star Leander Paes and Hockey champion Jagbir Singh. |
| 5/1/1960 | Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 10/17/1999 | Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 5/7/1907 | Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born. |
| 6/25/1998 | Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
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