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Historical Event on 8/9/1996
Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1797 | Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra. |
| 5/19/1979 | Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away. |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 7/14/1946 | India grants Siam a 20 year, 3 mil. credit to increase export of Siamese rice. |
| 1/1/1989 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Young Reader"". |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
| 3/12/1995 | Congress party loses India national election. |
| 12/5/1931 | Gandhiji leaves England for India. |
| 10/16/2000 | Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches. |
| 4/15/1883 | Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born. |
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