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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 |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
| 3/13/1878 | The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper. |
| 6/10/1984 | Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit. |
| 3/30/1949 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 10/13/1967 | Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
| 7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
| 12/19/1978 | The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
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