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Historical Event on 3/13/1878

The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1921Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest.
9/4/1862Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
9/29/1992Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1)
9/13/1997Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
9/13/1997Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born.
10/19/1967Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
8/2/1994Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions.
9/25/1990S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died.
6/24/1989A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.