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Historical Event on 8/13/1997

The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1996Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months.
8/9/1969Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'.
5/4/1832Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly.
5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
1/10/199728th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum.
12/20/1929The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi.
8/11/1997135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
5/4/1849Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born.
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