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Historical Event on 12/10/1907
Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/6/1997 | New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being. |
| 3/22/1999 | 57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district. |
| 9/6/1990 | Prasar Bharti' bill passed in Parliament. |
| 12/10/1870 | Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born. |
| 8/20/1944 | Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay. |
| 9/19/1933 | Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born. |
| 7/5/1916 | Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore. |
| 12/30/1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China. |
| 11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. |
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