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Historical Event on 4/4/1997

World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1990Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away.
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
11/7/1893Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37.
3/1/1908A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.
5/5/2000Supreme Court permits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha (petitioner) to have herself and the others examined as ''defence witnesses'' in connection with the trial of the 'Colour TV scam case'.
10/22/1999The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
7/26/1922Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor, was born.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.