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Historical Event on 10/13/1999

Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1895Munshi Newal Kishore, great social worker, educationist, nationalist, philanthropist and a pioneer industrialist, passed away at the age of 59.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
3/6/1998A Congress(I) Ministry headed by Virbhadra Singh is sworn in at Himachal Pradesh.
9/8/1897Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case.
3/4/1996India and EU agree on a plan to boost trade ties.
1/24/1980J.S. Bawa became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 28/02/85).
8/3/1994The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96).
11/18/19371,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year.
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
8/3/1930Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur.