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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 |
| 11/12/1930 | First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain. |
| 10/13/1999 | No change in portfolios of Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Fernandes. |
| 8/3/1998 | 35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
| 1/4/1995 | IAF batch (Angel of Mercy) returns from Somalia after 16 months of stay and 700 sorties. |
| 1/25/1980 | Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc. |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
| 3/8/1999 | The President formally revokes the proclamation imposing Central rule in Bihar after this was decided by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day. |
| 10/16/1990 | Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died. |
| 7/31/1997 | V. Thangapandian (64), Tamil Nadu Commercial Taxes Minister, died at Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district. |
| 10/12/1967 | National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India. |
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