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Historical Event on 5/13/1956
Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/25/1919 | Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established. |
| 8/4/1997 | Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo). |
| 11/12/1959 | Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe, great leader of Harijans and farmers, passed away. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 12/27/1977 | The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi. |
| 11/9/1877 | Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). |
| 7/5/1857 | Baigum Hazrat Mahal again attack on Lucknow. |
| 1/22/1899 | Dilipkumar Roy, classical musician, was born. |
| 12/22/1928 | An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.' |
| 5/11/1998 | Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft. |
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