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Historical Event on 4/13/1796

The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/6/1937Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
5/3/1971Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away.
6/15/1908Stock Exchange of Calcutta was opened of Baldeodas Daduawala and Overened.
7/7/1943Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
5/28/1903Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).
11/23/1993'The Bullshit'', a Turkish film, wins the Golden Elephant award at the 8th International Childrens film festival in Udaipur.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.
9/6/1961D. N. Kohli was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 28-05-1966.
2/1/1994ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.