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Historical Event on 5/13/1996

Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1992This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"".
4/12/1997Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools.
3/17/1994Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants.
4/4/1990Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
6/24/1946Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi.
7/19/1994The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".