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Historical Event on 10/14/1998
Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1982 | Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker and leader, passed away. |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 10/2/1994 | Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 9/30/1997 | 24th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum. |
| 4/22/1921 | Subhas Chandra Bose, resigned from Indian Civil Service, and formed South Calcutta Sevak Samiti after returning to India. He was also arrested for carrying our freedom movement. |
| 6/26/1995 | Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population. |
| 4/29/1948 | Natraj Kamakshi, modern social reformer and journalist, passed away. |
| 4/9/1669 | Aurangzeb issued a general order all the schools and temples of the infidels. |
| 1/2/1997 | Bihar wins team titles in both men's and women's sections in national archery. Limba Ram and Purnima Mahato, both of Bihar, win individual crowns in men's and women's sections respectively. Turkey's `Pocket Hercules', weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu, who captured three Olympic gold medals, calls it a day in Ankara. |
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