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Historical Event on 5/13/1971

General Insurance nationalized.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1999Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits.
4/10/1993Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow.
5/27/1930Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.
4/17/1945Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
8/2/1988The Supreme Court confirmed death sentence on Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh in Indira Gandhi murder case.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
6/25/1998Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
3/20/1970Establishment of Muslim Satyashodhak Samaj.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.