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Historical Event on 10/13/1998
Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/23/1898 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born. |
| 3/20/1993 | Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested. |
| 4/1/1979 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education came under the Administrative Control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 4/9/1986 | First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada. |
| 12/20/1929 | The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi. |
| 12/7/1992 | Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 5/7/2000 | Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case. |
| 3/2/1997 | Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit. |
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