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Historical Event on 5/13/1998
India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
| 2/13/1969 | Subroto Tara Banerjee, cricketer (Indian quickie & Dennis Lillee protegee), was born in Patna. |
| 7/10/1994 | Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died. |
| 6/6/1986 | Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police. |
| 4/30/1908 | Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 11/29/2000 | India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad. |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
| 7/2/1941 | Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29. |
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