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Historical Event on 4/15/1992

Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1956Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88.
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
1/14/1896Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born.
2/23/1932The N. W. Frontier province is created.
11/19/1978Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.
10/12/1935Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born
11/5/1990Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.
1/31/1946Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), was born in Calcutta.
5/1/1987The Bofors Deal.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).