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Historical Event on 5/13/1952
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/29/1939 | Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara. |
| 8/3/1984 | Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
| 8/20/1917 | Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'. |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 6/7/1965 | Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 4/19/1995 | Gopala Ramanujam,Goa Governor, takes up additional charge of Kerala. |
| 7/2/1926 | Ram Sewak Yadav, social reformer, politician and leader, was born in Tala Village, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 10/23/1970 | If 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 |
| 8/10/1998 | Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta. |
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