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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
1/16/1995India and USA form new trade framework called Indo-US Commercial Alliance and signs contracts worth $ 1.4 b.
6/12/2000The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
10/21/1996Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
3/23/1910Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter and socialist leader, was born at Akbarpur, district Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. He had founded Praja Socialist Party in 1952.
2/10/1931Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.
11/6/1904Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born.
11/25/1999Madras HC sets aside Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's order rejecting the mercy petitions of four accused in Rajiv Gandhi case.
12/26/1831Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away.