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Historical Event on 8/2/1984

32 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/11/1991Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls.
3/1/2000P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.
5/27/1990Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election.
12/21/1903Bhalchandra Digambar Garware, famous industrailist, was born.
2/6/1994Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
2/3/2000Dr. Bimal Jalan, RBI Governor, unveils a seven-point agenda for banking sector reforms.
7/31/1912Allan Octavian, great social reformer, patriot, lawyer, journalist and politician, passed away at the age of 84.
4/8/1894Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.