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Historical Event on 3/13/1947
Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
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| 9/27/1972 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
| 1/1/1894 | Satyendranath Bose, Professor and famous Indian physics expert, was born, He worked with Albert Einstein for some time. |
| 6/3/1992 | Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident. |
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| 1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
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