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Historical Event on 8/9/1998

India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/22/1937Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
5/30/1915Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service and Diplomat, was born at Delhi.
11/6/1937Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
6/5/1989Missile `Trishul' tested successfully.
3/3/1919Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.
12/9/1997Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
3/6/1961India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.
5/13/1996Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.