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Historical Event on 4/3/1999
India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/3/1987 | S.H. Vatsyayan passed away. |
8/4/1997 | Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members. |
10/27/1904 | Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Bankim Behari in Calcutta. |
1/1/1975 | Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died. |
3/16/1946 | India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'. |
3/23/1911 | Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away. |
9/16/1916 | M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born. |
3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
5/22/1940 | Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970). |
11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
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