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Historical Event on 7/13/1912
Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P.
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| 3/4/1961 | First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast. |
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| 3/17/1959 | Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet. |
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| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
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