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Historical Event on 11/13/1999

Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
9/16/1931Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
2/28/1919Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born.
8/6/1996Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
2/2/2000The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution.
10/27/1907Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.
1/14/1985Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
1/8/2000Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.