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Historical Event on 4/8/1985

India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1931Bengal Congress to boycott British goods.
9/14/1965Pakistan Air Force bombs Calcutta and Agartala civilian airports.
1/7/1994The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year.
1/14/1896Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born.
3/15/1946Attlee offers India full independence after agreement on constitution in London.
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
2/8/1948Indian govt. bans Muslim groups 'Khaksars' and 'League National Guard'.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
12/31/1998Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.