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Historical Event on 2/14/1989
Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1972 | Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta. |
| 8/20/1991 | Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras. |
| 5/4/1993 | Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.30,000; Customs duty on certain drugs reduced. |
| 2/14/1996 | Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn. |
| 6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
| 2/24/2000 | The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise. |
| 8/13/1936 | Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay. |
| 11/19/1999 | New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 2/28/1900 | Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born. |
| 12/30/1993 | Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress. |
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