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Historical Event on 6/13/1997

At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1931Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue.
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
1/7/1885Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
10/13/1967Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.