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Historical Event on 3/13/1857
Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 4/4/1942 | Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. |
| 2/13/1713 | Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort. |
| 1/24/1857 | Calcutta University established. |
| 12/12/1965 | Vijayanta, first India-made millitary tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras. |
| 7/3/1661 | Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II. |
| 7/1/1999 | K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow. |
| 11/17/1915 | Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune. |
| 12/16/1999 | Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites. |
| 7/8/1988 | More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala. |
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