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Historical Event on 12/10/1905
Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1997 | Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award. |
| 10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 3/2/1994 | President's rule in J & K extended. |
| 4/27/1606 | Jahangir arrested Khusroo. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 4/2/1992 | Agajan Baig (Aga), famous Hindi film actor, passed away. |
| 5/22/1772 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
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