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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
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
9/13/1997India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
10/1/1967Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
7/6/1960The President promulgates the ESMA, 1960.
10/2/1944Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday.
10/24/1975Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance
2/25/1963Nehru refuses to recognize China-Pakistan border pact in New Delhi.
8/2/1861Parafulla Chandra Ray, chemical expert and great patriot, was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara IN Jessore district.