1984 in India - Events

Events

• 5 March - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders Operation Blue Star.
• 2 April - Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
• 13 April - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
• 5 June - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star.
• 4 June - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine.
• 31 October - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards. Her son Rajiv Gandhi succeeds her as Prime Minister.
• 31 October - 3 November An estimated 2,700-10,000 Sikhs killed during the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other areas; mobs loot and damage several Sikh homes, businesses and Gurdwaras in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi
• 3 December - Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.