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Historical Event on 5/13/1997

Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/29/1933Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away.
5/11/1993Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
12/7/1993Lalthanhwala sworn in CM of Mizoram.
7/23/1898Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.
4/8/1894Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra(1894-1994), venerated Shankaracharya saint of Kanchi monastery in South India.
11/18/1772Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him.