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Historical Event on 6/13/2000

Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/1993Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
1/23/1976Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.
2/18/1997Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati.
12/23/1912Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
12/25/1954Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died.
4/27/1942Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.