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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
8/9/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
4/2/1933Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji ""Ranji"", Maharaj, jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, passed away. He was referred as ""The prince of a little state, but the King of a great game"". He scored 989 Test runs with a 1st-class avg. 56.
6/6/1969Sunil Bandacharya Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996), was born in Gadag.
11/17/1925Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born.
12/27/1936Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism.