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Historical Event on 2/13/1998

India signs two agreements with the U.N. Development Fund for a $13.75-million grant for food security and environment support.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1998T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99).
3/11/1990Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away.
7/22/1998India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka.
3/25/1994Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years.
9/10/1920Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.
11/6/1993First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.
11/6/1993Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, fought Babur near Kanwa at Agra and lost the battle and died thereafter. He had vowed not to enter Chittogarh without a victory.
8/19/1996Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'.
11/22/1997Diana Hayden, 24-year-old Mumbai-born Miss India, beat 85 contestants from around the world to be crowned new 'Miss Universe' at Mahe in Seychelles.
3/16/1945Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.