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Historical Event on 9/13/1997
Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 8/14/1998 | Classical vocalist Shamshad Begum, who enthralled radio listeners in the 30s and 40s, died in Mumbai. |
| 11/19/1997 | 22 persons killed and 30 injured when car bomb explodes outside film studio in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. The deceased include Eanadu TV crew of six people. |
| 2/26/1972 | President Varahgiri Venkat Giri inaugurated the Vikram Earth Satellite Station at Wardha near Arvi. |
| 2/16/1942 | The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 4/10/1995 | Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 12/11/1929 | Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom |
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