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Historical Event on 2/13/1856
East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1883 | Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born. |
| 12/25/1889 | Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P. |
| 3/3/1997 | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi. |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 3/2/1963 | China reports troops have left disputed area in India. |
| 12/31/1966 | Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta. |
| 4/1/1994 | Five ministers resign from the Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
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