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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
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
6/22/1995India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
1/15/1958Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
8/19/1977Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake.
2/25/1910Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
1/2/1994India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months.
8/1/2000One hundred people of Kinnaur, Shimla and Mandi districts of HP die following flash floods in the Sutlej river.
1/18/1998Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India.