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Historical Event on 3/12/1992
A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.
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| 5/25/1991 | Indian, UN Angola Verification Mission - I ended (UNAVEM - I June 1989 - May 1991). |
| 4/4/1912 | Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born. |
| 2/22/1948 | Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born. |
| 10/27/1926 | Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar |
| 12/11/1922 | Dilip Kumar, famous film actor, was born. |
| 11/18/1948 | Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna. |
| 1/16/1992 | For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat. |
| 1/16/1992 | Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
| 8/1/1927 | Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born. |
| 12/23/1976 | Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor. |
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