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Historical Event on 3/13/1947

Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1977S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77).
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
11/29/1989Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
3/23/1968Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
10/11/1988Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President.
12/8/1875Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born.
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
7/30/1960Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader.
10/29/1991Janta Dal leaders inculding V.P. Singh arrested on way to Ayodhya.