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Historical Event on 12/13/1955

India and the USSR affirm the Panchsheel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
4/14/1914Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born.
9/20/1911Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Auvalkhera, Agra.
5/19/1991About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
12/10/1857Veer Narayan Singh organised a small group and had an encounter with British army. He was charged treason and sentenced to death. He was executed publicly.
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
5/1/1992C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
12/14/1920Akali Dal established.