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Historical Event on 12/13/2000

Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/22/1789Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
8/5/1991Leila Seth was sworn the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. She is a judge of Delhi High Court.
8/6/1999Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
7/14/1992The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K.
3/5/1948C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
1/2/1967University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.
8/20/1997Premananda, self-styled godman, sentenced by Pudukottai district and sessions court to life imprisonment for two terms and a fine of Rs. 66.4 lakhs for rape of 13 inmates of his ashram and murder of a male inmate.