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Historical Event on 8/13/1943
Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1975 | Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine ""Satyakatha"", d |
| 6/8/1936 | Akashwani Radio was later changed into All India Radio (AIR) in 1958. |
| 5/24/1990 | K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away. |
| 2/4/1924 | Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 6/11/1997 | I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts that India had not deployed the `Prithvi' ballistic missile anywhere in the country or on the border. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 10/30/1947 | The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan. |
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