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Historical Event on 12/8/1999
Brij Bhupinder Singh alias Lalli, former Punjab Minister, was arrested on charges of fraud and disappropriation of public funds.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/10/1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 2/21/1878 | Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 11/19/1985 | Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away. |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 6/17/1917 | Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 8/20/1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria. |
| 12/24/1993 | Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died. |
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