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Historical Event on 12/13/2000
All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/23/1990 | World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups. |
| 8/23/1986 | B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 12/17/1934 | Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died. |
| 10/13/1911 | Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
| 10/5/1989 | Meerasahib Fatima Beevi, former High Court judge from Kerala, was named the first woman judge of the Supreme Court. |
| 6/7/1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 9/23/1858 | Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died. |
| 7/5/1996 | Janata Dal expels dissident Maneka Gandhi from primary membership of the party. |
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