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Historical Event on 12/13/1978

Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1929S.V. Subramanian, great Hindi writer, was born at Virakeralanpudur, Tamil Nadu.
7/12/1947Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad.
3/27/1993Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours.
4/18/1904Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).
10/21/1995L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.
2/6/1937Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born.
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
2/7/1994C. T. Kamdar, famous industrialist and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away.