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Historical Event on 12/13/1978

Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.
2/1/1881Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
1/26/1957Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar.
2/19/1994Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration.
3/5/1851Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta.
9/8/1911Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
4/23/1929Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay.
10/18/1995President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation.
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.



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