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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
5/31/1968F.V. Arul became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 06/05/71).
2/2/1993Prices of iron and steel hiked.
2/15/1992Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away.
9/12/1627Ibrahim Adilshah died.
7/22/1998India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka.
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).
12/28/1885Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
2/14/1807Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.