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Historical Event on 5/13/1996
Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1996 | 1996-97 budget presented to Parliament by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. |
| 11/27/2000 | Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident. |
| 12/22/1977 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died. |
| 12/22/1977 | Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle. |
| 8/29/1928 | Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur. |
| 1/4/1937 | R. Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s), was born in Meerut. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 9/8/1991 | Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam. |
| 1/10/1997 | 28th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
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