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Historical Event on 12/13/2000

Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1930Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army.
8/14/1968Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay.
8/19/1907Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born.
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
7/21/1963Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.
1/30/1948Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.
1/2/1953Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.
6/1/1842Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.
4/8/1759British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India.
3/4/1906Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.