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Historical Event on 3/13/1997
H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/1729 | Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 6/9/1752 | French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India. |
| 7/24/1837 | Kanishta, son of Samajya Laxshmi, was killed. |
| 11/22/1773 | Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48. |
| 4/13/1982 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away. |
| 12/9/1997 | Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal. |
| 1/31/1994 | Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 8/22/1818 | Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85. |
| 8/10/1855 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born. |
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