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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.
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| 6/12/2000 | The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful. |
| 9/27/1873 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 11/29/1644 | The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith. |
| 7/22/1998 | India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka. |
| 7/13/1999 | Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar. |
| 5/31/1973 | Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi. |
| 10/24/1933 | Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals. |
| 12/24/1999 | Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off. |
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