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Historical Event on 5/13/1791
Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
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| 11/22/1990 | Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108). |
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| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 6/30/1981 | President's rule imposed in Assam. |
| 12/20/1956 | Saint Gadgebaba died. |
| 7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
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