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Historical Event on 2/13/1719
Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
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| 7/2/1928 | Nandkishor Bal, great Odia poet, passed away. |
| 11/15/1982 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
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| 8/25/1999 | Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi. |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 1/1/1972 | Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges. |
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