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Historical Event on 5/13/1953

The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
8/4/1933Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
3/12/1944No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram.
1/19/1994CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases.
9/13/1965Pakistanis bomb Bombay.
10/3/1997Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'.
10/14/1989Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
7/25/1986Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India.