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Historical Event on 12/13/1999
The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/2000 | ''Water'' shooting stopped following suicide by a Shiv Sena activist; and director, Ms. Deepa Mehta asked to leave Varanasi. |
| 5/18/1998 | India talks with the US on the nuclear tests. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 10/1/2000 | Ram Vilas Paswan, Communications Minister, launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited having total functional autonomy. |
| 8/19/1903 | Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born. |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
| 12/29/1996 | Trishul', surface-to-air missile successfully tested. |
| 6/24/1996 | Cong(I) enters into an electoral alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for forthcoming Assembly election in UP. |
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