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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
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
5/20/1991General Election (10th) of India begins.
5/20/1878Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, Marathi novelist and omnicent, passed away.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
7/26/1923Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born.
8/25/1992Mi-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35 Squadron and was renamed as 104-Helicopter Squadron.