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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
5/26/1935Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.
2/6/1950N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
10/10/1954First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'.
3/29/1943Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail.
10/2/1993Prime Minister's employment project started in urban areas.
10/2/1993Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath.
12/9/1997Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal.
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.