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Historical Event on 5/13/1956

Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1920Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
12/23/1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
9/10/1915Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
8/6/1999Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.
10/2/1972Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.
6/6/1907John Morley, U.K. Government State Secretary, declares ""it will not withdraw from India under any circumstances"".
5/4/1993Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to conquer the Everest twice.
4/22/1996Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr. Bhumidhar Barman became new CM.