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Historical Event on 12/10/1978

Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1928Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929.
1/29/1983Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns.
6/6/1903Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic.
3/5/1961Sachin Sengupta, famous writer, dramatist and journalist, passed away.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.
6/27/1964Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum.
6/4/1958The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.
2/19/1812Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
10/3/1984India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.