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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
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
8/1/1957National Book Trust inaugurated.
8/1/1957Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
8/15/1960Maharashtra State Sahkari Grihvitta Corporation was established.
1/21/1908Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.
12/27/1931150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
6/27/1915Khanderao Moreshwar Rangnekar, 3 test matches, 33 runs, vs Australia in 1947-48, was born at Mumbai.
8/20/1998The Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds the conviction of former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill for outraging the modesty of an IAS officer Mrs. Rupan Deol Bajaj.