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Historical Event on 12/13/1984

The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/6/1955Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.
12/9/1994Gorprasad Ghosh, famous Orriya film actor, director and producer, passed away.
2/6/1994Indian Union Muslim League splits, G.M.Banatwala elected President in place of Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait.
8/13/1963Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
7/21/1935Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.
3/7/1934Nariman Jamshedji Contractor ""Nari Contractor"", cricketer (Indian batsman & captain) was born in Godhra, Gujarat.
3/7/1934Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.