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Historical Event on 2/13/1601
John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1991 | K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab. |
| 5/5/1942 | Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 4/13/1993 | Bhupan Hazarika wins Phalke Award for 1992. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 1/28/1984 | Sohrab Meherwanji Modi, famous drama and film producer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 6/11/1930 | A cyclonic storm blew a train off the rails near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, killing at least one person and injuring many more. |
| 3/12/1938 | Vijay Laxman Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17), was born in Amritsar. |
| 5/1/1966 | Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra. |
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