BITS OF HISTORY

1984: A gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed at least 3,000 people and disabled thousands.

1993: Britain's Princess Diana said she was bowing out of the public spotlight because she wanted privacy and time to herself.

2004: Pakistan and India agreed to reopen a rail link severed nearly 40 years earlier between Munabao in Rajasthan state and Khokrapar in southern Pakistan.