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Historical Event on 5/13/1998

India conducts two more nuclear tests at Pokhran. The US slaps sanctions. The Prime Minister says India will face down sanctions.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1872Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.
10/6/1858Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first mutiny, died.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
11/28/1990President's rule imposed in Assam. Assembly kept in suspended animation. United Liberation Front of Assam and National Socialist Council of Nagaland banned.
1/30/1994Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
7/8/199733 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
4/18/1930Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army.
2/25/1982J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away.