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Historical Event on 12/10/1913
The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/2000 | The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
| 3/12/1992 | India and the US decide to hold joint naval exercises in the Indian ocean. |
| 2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
| 7/31/1985 | Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists. |
| 12/15/1932 | Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 5/25/1886 | Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
| 3/3/1924 | Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim. |
| 6/18/1940 | Forward Block Party was established. |
| 12/10/1886 | Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore. |
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