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Historical Event on 12/11/1968

Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1915Devraj Ars, former chief minister of Karnataka, was born.
9/26/1977Uday Shankar (Chowdhury), producer and director of dance-based film 'Kalpana', passed away. He was the elder brother of Pandit Ravishankar. His main achievement was the blending of the Indian classical style with the Western Ballet and various folk dances.
3/22/1971Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
2/1/1894Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born.
12/28/1981Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned.
4/18/1993BJP issues white paper on Ayodhya.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
4/29/1939Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India.