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Historical Event on 5/13/1962
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963)
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1757 | The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal. |
| 7/24/1999 | Vimala Ranadive (84), senior CPI(M) leader, died in Mumbai. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 3/28/1997 | India and Pakistan, represented by Salman Haider and Shamshad Ahmed, Foreign Secretaries, hold official talks on issues at New Delhi. |
| 6/28/1991 | K. Doraiswamy, a senior executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, was kidnapped by Kashmir ultras. |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 2/24/1995 | 25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 6/27/1964 | Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum. |
| 4/7/1818 | British Government imposed 'State Prisoners Regulation III -1818' for detention and deportion of political prisoners and revolutionaries without any trial. This black act was in force till 1947 when India got independence. |
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