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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
10/28/1981Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
6/3/1916Smt. Nathibai Damodar Thakarsey Women's University was established.
1/22/1967Atomic Energy Center was renamed after Homi Jahangir Bhabha as 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre' at Trombay, Mumbai.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
10/29/1952Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name.
6/3/1924Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright, was born in Thirukkuvalai (Thanjavur).
2/2/1835Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction.
8/18/1979Vasantrao Naik, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died.
1/10/1955The Auxiliary Air Force squadrons were equipped with the HAL-designed HT-2 trainer - officially introduced into service.
10/5/1989Meerasahib Fatima Beevi, former High Court judge from Kerala, was named the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.