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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
2/2/1982Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.
8/23/2000Pronindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, dies of a massive heart attack at the AIIMS, New Delhi.
12/1/1921Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail.
3/9/1902Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
6/19/1877Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.
2/19/1915Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer, political leader and freedom fighter, passed away.
11/16/1713Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
9/8/1982Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for 50 years, died. He was 77.