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Historical Event on 2/13/1997

Deve Gowda, PM, dedicates the Rs. 3200-crore 480 MW Uri hydel project in north Kashmir to the nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
5/7/1907Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
12/17/1972New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.
1/18/2000India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
7/20/1990GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
2/16/1997Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti.