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Historical Event on 10/14/1998
Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/29/1989 | Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India. |
| 2/6/1992 | The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry. |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 6/16/1990 | Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 10/21/1943 | Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader. |
| 12/17/1972 | New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan. |
| 12/31/1993 | Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border. |
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