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Historical Event on 12/10/1998

Dr. Gurudev S. Khush, rice breeder at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, wheat breeder at the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre, Mexico, share the Rank Prize announced in London.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
9/9/1997G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
3/1/1994Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
3/15/1950Planning Commission Day.
11/7/1995India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).
4/16/1903Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.