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Historical Event on 12/10/1902
Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
| 11/2/1885 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died. |
| 11/12/1929 | First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur. |
| 9/1/1989 | Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. |
| 8/15/1854 | The first train of the East Indian Railways steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hoogly, which was at a distance of 24 miles. It was the first passenger train catering to public traffic. Officially, it was inaugurated in 1855. |
| 2/13/1969 | Subroto Tara Banerjee, cricketer (Indian quickie & Dennis Lillee protegee), was born in Patna. |
| 6/1/1970 | Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969. |
| 5/10/1993 | Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time. |
| 1/12/1993 | Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested. |
| 2/6/1932 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away. |
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