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Historical Event on 11/10/1968

Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati.

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3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
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7/6/1881Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha.
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9/26/1996High Court rejected Rao's petition for anticipatory bail in Pathak cheating case.
4/16/1991President's rule imposed in Haryana.
12/20/1866Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born.
9/19/1927Kunwar Narayan, famous writer of 'Atmajayee' and 'Akaron Ke Aas Pas', was born.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.