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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 |
| 9/28/1929 | Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born. |
| 11/27/1778 | Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
| 5/1/1915 | Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born. |
| 9/7/1931 | The Second Round Table conference began in London and lasted till 1st December, 1931. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. Two committees were set up to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both the committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in the future constitution. |
| 10/27/2000 | The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively. |
| 10/27/1907 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died. |
| 1/22/1901 | Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"". |
| 6/4/1926 | Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax. |
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