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Events on Sunday 2 December 1984 1
1984Bhopal gas disasterToxic gas leak at Union Carbide pesticide plantA leak of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people within days and injured hundreds of thousands more. It remains the worst industrial disaster in history, with long-term health and environmental effects still measured decades later.