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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
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
9/16/1954The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
3/31/1997Lakhubhai Pathak, prominent NRI businessman who had accused Narasimha Rao of cheating $ 100,000, died in London.
11/24/1997Leander-Mahesh stumble at the final step, finish second in the World doubles tennis championships at Hartford.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
8/10/1905Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born.
8/10/1992P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.