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Historical Event on 12/10/1998
Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/2/1911 | Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara. |
| 11/24/1969 | Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 9/18/1965 | Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China. |
| 11/25/1987 | India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 12/24/1999 | Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad. |
| 4/12/1991 | Lok Sabha elections announced for May 20, 23, 26; Punjab Assam, J&K polls deferred. |
| 6/12/1897 | Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll). |
| 3/19/1973 | Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
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