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Historical Event on 12/3/1984

3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1996Maharashtra govt. winds up the inquiry commission headed by Justice Srikrishna set up to probe the communal riots in Mumbai in Dec. 92-Jan. 93.
12/16/1922Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle.
4/10/1982Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi.
1/18/1994Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM.
1/26/1988A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).
7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
4/19/1993Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.
11/14/1926Piloo H. Mody, social reformer, politician and architect, was born at Bombay.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.