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Historical Event on 10/14/1998

Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
1/25/1992Swaran Singh and Vajpayee awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
5/9/1996Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns.
5/20/1992V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
9/15/1860M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too.
6/2/1993Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured.
6/2/1756Fort William, the English stronghold in Bengal, was surrendered to Siraj-ud-Daulah.
9/16/1997General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
5/14/1914Ekanath Dattatreya Kulkarni, educationist and writer, was born at Bhaloni, Tal Pandharpur.