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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 |
| 1/3/1922 | Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born. |
| 2/20/1987 | Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 6/24/1974 | India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
| 9/24/1995 | Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 10/18/1968 | Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur. |
| 4/13/1948 | Bhuvaneshwar became the capital of Orissa. |
| 5/6/1993 | Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled. |
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