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Historical Event on 12/17/1987
Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1923 | Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India. |
| 6/29/1976 | Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
| 6/24/1980 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras. |
| 6/24/1980 | Shrichakradhar Swami, founder of 'Mahanubhav Panth', passed away. |
| 9/9/1993 | Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrived in Seoul for a three-day visit. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 5/9/1997 | At least 71 persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying a marriage party plunges into gorge near Gasota in Hamerpur district of Himachal Pradesh. |
| 12/31/1995 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, Indian Air Force. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1998. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
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