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Historical Event on 12/11/1968

Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.
1/22/1993A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.
1/31/1903Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born.
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.
3/5/1989Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
9/30/1916Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P.
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.