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Historical Event on 8/18/1872

Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra.

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12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
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