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Historical Event on 5/13/1962
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963)
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1999 | Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi. |
| 8/25/1948 | Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision. |
| 4/7/1942 | Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruv, famous Gujarati expert, Sanskrit Pandit and editor of a monthly magzine, died. |
| 11/21/1970 | Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure. |
| 8/18/1951 | Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal. |
| 6/23/1994 | Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free. |
| 7/2/2000 | At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar. |
| 2/6/1994 | World Marathi Chember of Commerce' established. |
| 2/2/1788 | Pitt's Regulatory Act was was introduced to modify the Indian Administration and put further controls on Government of India after the 1784 Bill. |
| 12/20/1998 | Dr. B. V. Raman (86), a reputed astrologer, dies in Bangalore following a cardiac arrest. He was the Editor of The Astrological Magazine. |
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