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Historical Event on 4/13/1997

Anand wins Dos Hermanas chess crown.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1978In the Child Marriage Act, minimum age for marriage was raised to 21 year for males and 18 years for females.
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
11/3/1997American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
7/15/1987Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V. C. Shukla, Arif Mohammed Khan and Arun Nehru from Congress for anti-party activities.
4/15/1946The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
5/15/1993K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93.
10/3/1950India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.