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Historical Event on 3/13/1996

Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.

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5/27/1930Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.
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1/17/1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.
5/4/1992India and Russia sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation.
11/9/1962Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died.
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1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
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