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Historical Event on 5/13/1998
India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/25/1948 | National Cadet Corps was first established. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
| 10/22/1680 | Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died. |
| 6/21/1862 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University. |
| 5/10/1927 | Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 8/20/1885 | First meeting of the Indian National Congress held. |
| 6/11/1946 | Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre. |
| 3/1/1903 | Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born. |
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