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Historical Event on 8/13/1936
Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/1916 | Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born. |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 1/23/1961 | Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films. |
| 1/23/1961 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 12/1/1991 | Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara. |
| 2/3/1997 | Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 11/1/1927 | Ghani Khan Chaudha, political leader, was born. |
| 6/22/1996 | Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut. |
| 1/5/1982 | C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous music director, died. |
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