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Historical Event on 5/13/2000

Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1992K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India.
2/6/1996Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
3/22/1977Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.
11/17/1966India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.
8/10/1986Gen. A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of 'Operation Blue Star', was shot dead at Pune.
7/4/1729Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died.
11/23/1999Vinod Chandra Pandey takes over as the Governor of Bihar.
9/19/1962Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War.
6/29/1997Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany.