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Historical Event on 10/13/1679
More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1992 | President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges. |
| 4/2/1954 | Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons. |
| 1/26/1957 | Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar. |
| 10/6/1983 | Punjab Government was dismissed to halt religious and political violence by Indira Gandhi, who imposed President's rule in the state. |
| 8/5/2000 | Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi. |
| 7/24/1993 | Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha. |
| 6/11/1997 | BSE sensitive index reaches 3927. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 4/18/1914 | Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai. |
| 2/23/1993 | India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England. |
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