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Historical Event on 5/13/1991
P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 10/6/1997 | International Commodity Exchange Division of the India Pepper and Spice Trade Association in Kochi opened. |
| 2/13/1861 | Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. |
| 3/16/1977 | Sixth General Election of India begins. |
| 5/5/1971 | India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
| 7/17/1948 | Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service. |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 9/8/1790 | Lord Edward Alanbaro, Governor General of India (1842 to 1844), was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
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