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Historical Event on 7/13/1957
Behram Navrosji Karanjia, leading merchant and director of various companies, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1989 | Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established. |
| 5/19/2000 | A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 4/23/1968 | Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away. |
| 4/23/1968 | Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 2/17/1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away. |
| 4/17/1799 | Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799). |
| 3/2/1986 | Kashinath Ghanekar, famous stage artist, passed away. |
| 10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
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