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Historical Event on 4/2/1953

Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
9/22/1979Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean.
2/17/1918S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu.
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
5/31/1947Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
10/30/1977Demonstrators and police clash in Madras as Indira Gandhi tours the country.
12/23/1992Varma Commission indicts IB, the Centre and Tamil Nadu police for failure to protect Rajiv Gandhi.
1/3/1987Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died.
8/29/1974Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.