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Historical Event on 12/13/1999
Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/10/1972 | Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24 people in Chandka Forest, India. |
| 12/23/1969 | Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi. |
| 9/27/1972 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore. |
| 3/13/1992 | K. S. Niranjan, famous Kannad author, passed away. |
| 1/17/1989 | Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole. |
| 2/21/1959 | Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi. |
| 2/23/1980 | Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
| 4/23/1913 | Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born. |
| 3/17/1909 | Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra. |
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