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Historical Event on 5/13/1953
The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1996 | General Election (11th) of India ended. |
| 12/7/1997 | Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award. |
| 11/5/1976 | Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year. |
| 7/19/1987 | Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V.P. Singh from Congress and orders probe into Ajitabh Bachhan's property abroad. |
| 1/1/1894 | Satyendranath Bose, Professor and famous Indian physics expert, was born, He worked with Albert Einstein for some time. |
| 6/30/1931 | June Thorburn, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore), was born in Kashmir, India. |
| 7/24/1985 | Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
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