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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
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
5/24/1903Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
7/1/1862Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.
11/21/1961Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.