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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
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
9/11/1985Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.
3/24/1896Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author and journalist, was born.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
4/28/1740Baji Rao I aka Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father's throne as the Peshwa.
10/23/1997Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender.
1/1/1891Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
1/14/1993The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.
6/3/1977K. Brahmananda Reddi elected President of the Indian National Congress.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.