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Historical Event on 4/13/1993

Bhupan Hazarika wins Phalke Award for 1992.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
5/11/1999Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down.
3/31/1867Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864.
3/31/1867Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
6/9/1992LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
11/18/1972Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.