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Historical Event on 7/13/1957

Behram Navrosji Karanjia, leading merchant and director of various companies, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/5/1978Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.
12/25/1876Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born.
9/29/1993JD, JD(A) and SJP merge to fight BJP in the assembly elections.
7/14/1998India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights.
10/6/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
5/11/1919Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India.
5/4/1980Coal Mine Worker's Day established.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
9/18/1924Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"".
2/22/1858Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged.