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Historical Event on 3/13/1996
Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 7/3/1838 | Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of `Prarthana Samaj', was born. |
| 4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
| 9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
| 3/22/1893 | Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born. |
| 9/21/1995 | Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi. |
| 12/28/1972 | C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General, died. |
| 3/12/1967 | Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections. |
| 12/15/1749 | Shahu Chattrapati, grandson of Shivaji, died. |
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