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Historical Event on 4/13/1989

Malayalam film 'Piravi' directed by Shaji N. Karun adjudged best feature film of 1988.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
1/24/1980J.S. Bawa became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 28/02/85).
4/25/2000The Supreme Court clears the decks for continuing the trial against AIADMK leader Jayalalitha in the controversial ''TANSI land deal case'' by ''erasing'' the Madras High Court judgment discharging her from the case.
12/21/1990Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
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.
11/26/1949Constitution of India was adopted
3/16/1939Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
9/21/1938Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan.
5/1/1992C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.