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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
9/29/1994Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.
4/27/2000Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
2/11/1998Prof. Anil Kumar Baruah, CPI(ML) candidate for the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Neharani.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
5/28/1963Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born.
1/20/1995Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution.
5/27/1964Gulzarilal Nanda was entrusted the responsibility as Acting Prime Minster of India. He held this office till June 9, 1964. He is till date the only Acting Prime Minster of India.
12/15/1974Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died.
6/13/1932Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.