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Historical Event on 5/13/1998

India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
4/3/1926Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta.
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
10/6/1999Suraj Bhan sworn in Governor of Bihar.
4/26/1993Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.
2/8/1971Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
7/2/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement on promoting agricultural research in New Delhi.
2/22/1905Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
4/30/1863Naval Force East India Comapny was merged with the British Naval Fleet.