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Historical Event on 11/13/1993

The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1999The Indian army occupies two key positions in the Batalik sector.
7/21/1906W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away.
11/14/1681East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
9/18/1917Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
10/23/1970If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour
5/30/1977Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons.
12/16/1951Salarjung Museum opened in Hyderabad.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
4/5/1938Anil Rakeshi, great poet, Hindi writer and critic, was born at Nahan (H.P.).
7/15/1902Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.