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Aga Khan III Event - 1924
Posted March 17th, 2009 by heritage
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Tuesday, 1924, January 1Location:
Council State of India recommended Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III for the Nobel Peace Prize, the first time ever in the history that a Muslim had been nominated for such an award. This was a unanimous resolution in India's Council of State to make His Highness Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., LLD to be a proper person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in view of the strenuous, persistent and successful efforts that His highness has made to maintain peace between Turkey and the Western Powers since the Armistice...'
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H.H. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III- 2553 reads